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Gregorian Chant - Saint Benedict From the Monastic Choir of St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes, France

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Gregorian Chant - Saint Benedict
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From the Monastic Choir of St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes, France
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The father of organized western monasticism, Saint Benedict, is celebrated with Mass and Office chants as well as organ music played on the Grandes orgues at Solesmes.

Mass Proper to the Benedictine Order
     Track 1-Priere     Jean Langlais    (organ)
     Track 2-Introit     Laudamus
     Track 3-Gradual     Domine Praevenisti
     Track 4-Alleluia     Vir Dei Benedictus
     Track 5-Sequence     Laeta Dies
     Track 6-Communion     Semel Juravi
     Track 7-Hymn     Claris Conjubila
     Track 8-Lied: Herr Jesu, was fur seelenweh  (S. 487)     J.S. Bach   (organ)
     
Mass of the Ancient Common of Abbots
     Track 9-Chorale: Ich ruf zu dir  (S. 63)    J.S. Bach   (organ)
     Track 10-Introit     Os justi
     Track 11-Alleluia     Justus et Palma
     Track 12-Offertory     Desiderium
     Track 13-Communion     Fidelis Servus
     Office of Saint Benedict
     Track 14-Lauds Antiphons
     Track 15-Antiphon     Sanctissime
     Track 16-Antiphon     O Caelestis Norma
     Track 17-Antiphon     Hodie S. Benedictus
     Track 18-Pavane in D minor     Henri Dumont    (organ)
 

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Product code: PPS820
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Paraclete Press
ISBN: 9781557250988
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Written by The Monastic Choir of St. Peter's Abbey of Solesmes

Praise

The most famous and ‘authentic’ recordings of Gregorian chant for generations have been those made by the Solesmes monks.”
The Boston Globe
The music is utterly magnificent and the singing of this great choir is thrilling beyond words…it’s better to starve to this music than to live without it.
—Classic CD
Supremely ethereal.
USA Today
Solesmes sets the standard for Gregorian chant performance.
American Record Guide
The success of Gregorian chant in the past century, and the centered richness of prayer it brings to all of us, is almost singularly due to the herculean efforts of the Benedictine Monks of Solesmes, France.... Communicates a mood of mystery, timelessness, peace, beauty, and contemplation.... The Monks of Solesmes ... use the most authentic manuscripts and ancient documents to recover the original melodies.... The monks' chanting is living, strong, unvarnished.... The chant is organic and text-based ... the singing is full and well-supported.... The recordings present entire liturgies, mostly sung live (creating) ... a sense of unbroken, focused prayer.... There's something incredible fresh and new ... which is well worth your attention.
New Liturgical Movement
Beauty and immense spiritual power when sung by the Monastic Choir of St. Peter's Abbey, Solesmes, France.... The music is exceptionally inviting, engaging listeners' ears with beauty and elevating their thoughts no matter what their spiritual or religious beliefs and doctrines may be.... The beauties of Gregorian chant...encourage inward looking, contemplation, thoughtfulness, a kind of separation from mundane affairs ... Gregorian chant resonates.... The sensitive, careful, beautifully measured performances here can be used as an entry point to an earlier time.
TransCentury Communications

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The Recorded Legacy of Solesmes

Since the refounding of the monastery of St. Peter of Solesmes in 1833 under Dom Prosper Gueranger, this Benedictine monastery on the River Sarthe in western France has set the world standard both for performance of Gregorian chant and the authenticity of the music itself. Commissioned by Pope Pius X to research the role of chant in liturgy and to edit books on chant that reflect this research, Solesmes enjoys an enviable reputation. Its work in liturgical reform and in the current revival of Gregorian chant has been likened to that of the great abbey of Cluny in the Middle Ages.
These recordings incorporate new understandings of ancient manuscripts and represent a distillation of nearly 200 years of scholarship in the chant: musical paleography, semiology, and modality. The groundbreaking work by the monks of Solesmes has contributed to today’s resurgence of interest in Gregorian chant as the foundation of Western music.
Paraclete Press is proud to be the North American distributor of the recordings of the monks of Solesmes. These recordings have won numerous prestigious international awards, including the Grand Prix du Disque, Deutsche Schallplatten Prize, Diapason d’Or, and the Edison Prize.