"Dacapo brings us the Icelandic composer's oratorio 'The Gospel of Mary' ... Guðmundsson's score pivots on the friction between Mary's account of what happened and that of Peter, the apostle who refused to believe that Jesus would have confided in a woman ... Here the chorus moves much of the narrative forwards, its male members embodying a stentorian, dense, defensive counterpart to the nuanced, reflective, feminine presence of Mary, strongly felt here courtesy of Berit Norbakken's clarion-clear soprano, laden with feeling and channelling some enraptured music ... The five instrumental meditations are immensely effective and beautifully crafted ... On the flipside are passages that ... feel either unduly misty-eyed or simply unwieldy"