James Woods and the New London Chamber Chorus and Chamber Ensemble provide a performance of Stravinsky"s Les Noces--considered by many to be the composer"s finest work--that is careful and well balanced, even if it never reaches the Apollonian sublimity of Bardon Eötvös"s recording. And it"s wonderful to hear engaging renditions of lesser-known vocal music by the composer, including the Four Russian Peasant Songs and several Slavonic works. Stravinsky"s arrangements of music by the infamous Renaissance composer Gesualdo and a modernist homage to T.S. Eliot round out this record. --Joshua Cody