Hymns, Sharakans and Cantos. Armenian sacred music from the 5th to the 20th centuries arranged for piano and voices by Tigran Hamasyan.

Tigran Hamasyan: piano, prepared piano
Yerevan State Chamber Choir
Harutyan Topikyan: conductor 

David James: counter tenor, David Gould: counter tenor, Roger Covey-Crump: tenor, Steve Harrold: tenor, Gordon Jones: baritone

John Potter - tenor
John Surman - saxophones, bass clarinet, percussion
Stephen Stubbs - lute, chitarrone, baroque guitar, vihuela
Maya Homburger - violin
Miloš Valent - violin, viola
Barry Guy - double bass

Slovakian (from Kosice) vocal ensemble Gregoriana comes with theirs second CD, this time led by Czech conductor Jan Mikušek. Nova (new), in the form of sacred choral works by contemporary authors, is here by the Vetera (old) in the form of Gregorian chant. Of Slovak authors are represented by Martin Bako, Mirko Krajči, Víťazoslav cubic Matthew Simko and Peter Zagar, other countries represented Libor Dřevikovský and Zdeněk Lukáš (Czech Republic), Fabio Fresi (Italy), Rihards Dubra and Renate Stivrina (Latvia), Vytautas Miškinis (Lithuania), Javier Busto (Spain) and Imant Raminsh (Canada).