Benedict Sheehan has established his status as one of our preeminent modern masters of liturgical choral music. His new Ukrainian War Requiem…in a crystal-clear recording by Axios Men’s Ensemble and the tenors and basses of Pro Coro Canada, conducted by Michael Zaugg, bolsters that reputation. It’s vital new art that responds powerfully, as art always has, to injustice and violence and the horrors of war by projecting solemn beauty.