An order of cloistered Benedictine nuns in France has signed a deal with Universal Music to produce an album of Gregorian chant. The abbess said that after time in prayer the nuns decided the effort ...
NEW YORK — When Christopher Alder, an 11-time Grammy winning music producer, first was asked to help create an album of Gregorian Chant, he was short on details. “When I was asked to do this recording ...
It has no dance beat. There are no synthesizers or guitars. There’s not even any harmony in the singing. And to top it all off, all the lyrics are in Latin. So how did “Chant” — an album of Gregorian ...
The mid-1990s witness a renewed interest in Gregorian Chant with the release, twenty years after its recording, of Chant (Angel, 1973/1994) by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos. The ...
It isn't every day that a group of Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, ...
The monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria sing ancient Gregorian chants in their 12th-century church — and then post them to YouTube. Their technological savvy landed them a record deal, and now ...
Alma redemptoris mater [Sarum plainchant, England, 10th century]; Alma redemptoris mater; Inviolata, integra et casta es [Ambrosian plainchant, 9th century]; Inviolata, integra et casta es a 5; Salve ...