Benedict Sheehan: Vespers

Audiophile Audition Review

Benedict Sheehan: Vespers

this is a marvelous, gorgeously rendered and profoundly personal expression of deep faith… I find this music glowing, inspiring and capable of great emotion and exultation, and one listens with rapt attention to its many marvels.

“this is a marvelous, gorgeously rendered and profoundly personal expression of deep faith…  I find this music glowing, inspiring and capable of great emotion and exultation, and one listens with rapt attention to its many marvels. It truly brings a fresh and new sensitivity to a very old and revered tradition, maintaining the deepest respect while adding something important and exciting to its modern evolution. Sheehan has the advantage of his wonderful St. Tikhon Choir, resident at the oldest Orthodox monastery in the United States in South Canaan, Pennsylvania. They are well-drilled and fluidly adept to the technical difficulties involved, with firm, smooth and well-balanced singing from top to bottom. The recording, done in splendidly resonant surround sound at St. Stephen’s pro-Cathedral in Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, is a testament to the Soundmirror engineers, a model of how this type of music should be captured. Highest recommendation.”

–Steven Ritter