You might not expect to find an outstandingly well-sung and idiomatic recording of so profoundly Russian a work as Sergey Vassilyevich Rachmaninoff's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom emanating from the Heartland and a group called the Kansas City Chorale, but you would be limiting yourself and your expectations unnecessarily. This is a beautifully realized performance of a spiritually moving and harmonically lovely score. It is a more complete version than that recorded by the St. Petersburg Chamber Choir, and for that reason is the first choice in CDs of this music. --Sarah Bryan Miller

• Sacred Treasures 1: Masterworks Russia
• Sacred Treasures 5: From a Russian Cathedral
• Rachmaninoff: Vespers (Mass for Unaccompanied Chorus)
• Sacred Treasures 3: Choral Masterwrks Russia
• Ancient Echoes