Pure Magic Michala Petri and the Danish National Vocal Ensemble - heard by HOWARD SMITH 'Don't miss it.'

At various intervals this bewitching CD brings to mind compositions by twentieth century composers from England, Germany and Hungary; viz -- William Walton (1902-1983), Mike Oldfield (born 1953), Carl Orff (1895-1982) and György Ligeti (1923-2006).

Much of the music evokes desolate, glaciated, taiga-tundra landscapes -- Karelia, northern Minnesota. Equally it (unintentionally?) suggests limitless interstellar voids, as in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)...

STEPHEN LAYTON