Browse: Whitacre - The Sacred Veil

VOCES8’s gorgeous sound, impeccable ensemble and intense responsiveness to text, harmony and melodic shape is all of the highest quality...when Whitacre deploys a touch more harmonic bite, his... — BBC Music Magazine, June 2023, 5 out of 5 stars (Performance) / 4 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

The text was co-written by Whitacre and Charles Anthony Silvestri, whose wife Julie died of ovarian cancer at 36 in 2005. There is a pseudo-liturgical feel which recalls something of Karl Jenkins’s... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…