“Robert Kyr, a composer and professor at the University of Oregon, has long dreamt of crafting an English setting of Eastern Orthodoxy’s All-Night Vigil, the liturgy that inspired Rachmaninoff to such great heights when he set in in Church Slavonic. Well, not only has Profesor Kyr gone and done it, but his work is here championed by the Cappella Romana, one of our finest choirs specializing in the music of Christianity’s ethnically charged Eastern branch. The music is contemporary but sticks like glue to the age-old liturgy and to the Orthodox imperative that it remain strictly devoted to the text it serves. … The writing conveys both darkness and light with enough spiritual oomph to keep an audience on its metaphysical toes. … The liner notes are unusually informative, texts are supplied, and the Super Audio format has everything sounding superb.”