Beth Nielsen Chapman's newest project, an impressive double CD set titled Prism, seamlessly weaves her voice through an eclectic mix of songs from many different languages, cultures and spiritual traditions. The product of a decade of hard work, Prism combines songs of devotion from Buddhist, Jewish, Sufi, Muslim, Shaker, Negro-spiritual, Hindu, Catholic, Protestant and other traditions, and also includes an entire CD of new music. It is a sequel to 2004's acclaimed Hymns and the album is scheduled for US release on February 5, 2008.

Not much is known of the life of the Flemish-born Nicolas Gombert (c1495- c1560), except that his career at the court of Emperor Charles V was interrupted by a period of exile as a galley slave for raping one of his choirboys. Yet his works provide an important link between early Renaissance composers such as Josquin and the high Renaissance masters like Palestrina.

The Monks of Simonopetra Monastery in Mount Athos chanting 13 psalms from the Psalms of David in the Holy Bible The Psalter has very early considered by the Orthodox Church as the "beginning, middle and end" of all its worship. The frequent use of the Psalms, by both monastics - who have consecrated their lives to the praise of God - and devout laid-people, transports humanity from this world into an anticipation of eternal life, in communion with all the saints who before it have prayed in this manner. It was with the aim of giving back to the Psalms of David the place that the Church always reserved for them, that the monks of Simonopetra, through the initiative of their Abbot, Archmandrite Aimilianos, set out to put the Psalter to music, according to the traditional rules of Byzantine chant. This enterprise has led to the publishing of a book numbering over of 600 pages of music manuscript, the "Psalterion Terpnon", of which the present recordings, performed by the Monastery's choir, are an illustration.

سورة يوسف بتلاوة الشيخ عبد الباسط عبد الصمد
A recitation by Sheikh AbdelBasset AbdelSamad of Surat Youssef. La Sourate de de Youssef par Cheikh AbdelBasset AbdelSamad.

سور الشعراء و الحجرات و التوبة و التكوير و البلد بتلاوة الشيخ عبد الباسط عبد الصمد
A recitation by Sheikh AbdelBasset AbdelSamad of the following Suras Al Shu'ara, Al Houjarar, Al Tawbah, Al Takwir, Al Balad. Les Sourates de Al Shu'ara, Al Houjarar, Al Tawbah, Al Takwir, Al Balad par Cheikh AbdelBasset AbdelSamad.

سور الشعراء و الحجرات و التوبة و التكوير و البلد بتلاوة الشيخ عبد الباسط عبد الصمد
A recitation by Sheikh AbdelBasset AbdelSamad of the following Suras Al Shu'ara, Al Houjarar, Al Tawbah, Al Takwir, Al Balad. Les Sourates de Al Shu'ara, Al Houjarar, Al Tawbah, Al Takwir, Al Balad par Cheikh AbdelBasset AbdelSamad.