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)
| Format: | Audio CD |
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| Product code: | PPS820 |
| Dimensions: | 0" x 0" |
| Length: | 0 pages |
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Paraclete Press
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| ISBN: | 9781557250988 |
| 1-2 copies | $16.71 each |
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| 3-9 copies | $15.95 each |
| 10-49 copies | $15.19 each |
| 50-99 copies | $14.81 each |
| 100+ copies | $14.24 each |
Praise
The most famous and ‘authentic’ recordings of Gregorian chant for generations have been those made by the Solesmes monks.”
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.
Supremely ethereal.
Solesmes sets the standard for Gregorian chant performance.
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.
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.
Author
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.
