Dr. Gail Walton

Review: The third compilation of the Liturgical Choir's music, Exultate Deo, features mostly a cappella music, with sets by Durufle, Palestrina, Mendelssohn, and Stanford. Highlights include Faure's tranquil "Cantique de Jean Racine"; Hoiby's contemporary organ exposition, "Let This Mind Be In You"; Palestrina's ageless "Sicut Cervus"; Mendelssohn's eight-voice German Mass segments; and Stanford's jubilant Easter anthem, "Ye Choirs of New Jerusalem."

Songlist: Hail Gladdening Light, Cantique de Jean Racine, Ubi Caritas, Tantum Ergo, Rorate Coeli, Ego Sum Panis Vivus, Kyrie, Ehre sei Gott in der Hohe, Heilig, A Hymn to the Virgin, O Sacrum Convivium, Let This Mind be in You, Justorum Animae, Coelos Ascendit Hodie

Review: Praise Thee, Notre Dame, the second recording from the Liturgical Choir, features a Mass, in five movements, written for two organs and choir by nineteenth-century French composer Louis Vierne, with organists Erik Floan and Heather Martin. The remainder of this collection is a cappella, including, "Salvation is Created" by Pavel Tchesnokoff, "Ave Maria" by Igor Stravinsky "Ain'a That Good News" arranged by William Dawson and "Notre Dame Our Mother," the University of Notre Dame alma mater.

Songlist: Messe Solennelle, Op. 16, Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei, Salvation is Created, Ave Maria, Blazhenni yazhe izbral, I Want to Walk as a Child of the Light (Kathleen Thomerson), The King of Love, Ain'a That Good News, Notre Dame, Our Mother