“This is the Byzantine chant album that aficionados have been waiting for and will be of interest far beyond the true believers. …the most exciting thing about this album is the reconstruction of the acoustical setting of Hagia Sophia, which has not heard this music since the fall of Constantinople in 1453, and no music at all since the 1935 secularization of Turkey by Ataturk. It could not have been done before now, but with the amazing technical wizardry now available, and after nearly ten years of research and the development of superb surround sound, it is possible to realize the beauties of the phenomenal building with an exactness heretofore unknown. … perhaps the most spectacular recording ever of Byzantine chant, and one of the most remarkable surround sound recordings I have heard.”