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Germany's Magna Canta combines Gregorian chants and full choirs singing in latin with house and trip-hop rhythms in their smooth, chillout recordings. Each track combines old-world mysticism with ultra-modern sounds.

Noah Creshevsky uses recorded vocal and instrumental sounds as source material for his electro-acoustic works, dissecting and recombining them in somewhat the same way that Cubists like Braque and Picasso used the elements of representational painting. The result is exciting but challenging – or should that be the other way round?Noah Creshevsky uses recorded vocal and instrumental sounds as source material for his electro-acoustic works, dissecting and recombining them in somewhat the same way that Cubists like Braque and Picasso used the elements of representational painting. The result is exciting but challenging – or should that be the other way round?

Libera is a boys vocal group organized by music director Robert Prizeman, drawn from schools in South London. Since the age range of the members is seven to 14, the personnel changes over time.

Britain s best-selling choir of the 21st Century, The Sixteen, releases a new album of music inspired by the Virgin Mary. Harry Christophers, the most prolific choral conductor of modern times, directs the choir performing a disc of Marian songs ranging from medieval composers like Palestrina, and Lassus through Bruckner and Liszt, all the way to modern times, including a world premiere work by Margaret Rizza, Ave Generosa. A Mother s Love: Music for Mary is The Sixteen s third album with Universal Classics and Jazz. The first two, Renaissance and Ikon, have already made them the bestselling choral artists in the UK as well as winning them a Classical Brit Award. Harry Christophers has been selected to front a new BBC4 show exploring the History of Sacred Music, rightly using his credentials as the authority in this field. The series, to be aired in spring 2008, will see Christophers as the new Howard Goodall. Business propositions aside, the very highest standards of singing remain the number one priority for Christophers and The Sixteen. The choir s repertoire never deviates from the core classical cannon. And so Christophers is delighted that, through the choir s renewed profile and enlarged fanbase, they can prove to the world with this recording that There s still Something About Mary…