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Best-selling Gregorian chants from the Monks of Solesmes, France Taken from the 10th to the 17th centuries, the Gregorian chants range from Tantum Ergo and Adoro te, to hymns from the service of Compline. Sung with grace and style, the chants on this disc are ideal for those who are familiar with the chant liturgy, as a collection of familiar melodies, as well as for those wanting to become familiar with Gregorian chant. Mass      Track 1-Sprinkling of Holy Water     Asperges me      Track 2-Sprinkling of Holy Water-Easter Season     Vidi aquam      Track 3-Kyrie XVI      Track 4-Gloria XV      Track 5-Sanctus XVIII      Track 6-The Lord’s Prayer     Pater noster      Track 7-Agnus Dei XVIII       Benediction of the Blessed Sacrament      Track 8-Chant of Adoration     Adoro te      Track 9-Hymn     Jesu dulcis memoria      Track 10-During Lent     Parce Domine      Track 11-Chant of worship     Tantum ergo      Track 12-Chant of worship     Adoremus in aeternum       Chants to our Lady      Track 13-Antiphon     Salve Regina  (simple tone)      Track 14-Antiphon     Regina caeli  (simple tone)      Track 15-Canticle and Antiphon     Magnificat      Track 16-Antiphon     Sub tuum praesidium      Track 17-Hymn     Ave maris stella       Along the Musical Year      Track 18-During Advent: Prose     Rorate caeli      Track 19-At Christmas: Ecce nomen Domini      Track 20-During Lent: Attende Domine      Track 21-At Pentecost: Hymn     Veni Creator      Track 22-At Compline: Hymn     Te lucis      Track 23-At Compline: Brief Responsory     In manus tuas      Track 24-At Compline: Canticle and Antiphon     Nunc dimittis       Kyriale      Track 25-Kyrie XI      Track 26-Sanctus XI      Track 27-Agnus XI      Track 28-Credo III      Track 29-Kyrie XVIIIC  

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This collection, under the direction of Solesmes' new Chantmaster reflects the new, graceful chanting developed over the past several years by Dom Gagne. The fact that the melodies are drawn from the Liber Cantualis and that they are beautifully performed make them a valuable teaching aid. Together with another new CD, Learning about Gregorian Chant, developed by Dom Gagne and Dom Solnier, they represent the beginning of an important music education movement on the part of Solesmes to teach the chant from the beginning. These two CDs would be invaluable first steps to any choral musician wishing to begin chant training with a choir, or to improve a choir's grace and accuracy in singing these melodies. I recommend them highly to everyone, and look forward to similar education projects from the monks of Solesmes. -Dr. Charles Chapman These chants are sung with the warm, pleasant tone so typical of the Solesmes monks with clear Latin diction and with a relaxed, conversational rhythm. With the aid of the Liber Cantualis and this recording it would be an ideal way to teach a choir to chant. -Dr. Robert Fowells, Los Angeles Gregorian Schola (founder) California State University The program of the two discs (Gregorian Melodies I and II) are similar, offering alternate settings on each disc of the sprinkling of water, the Ordinary of the Mass (two cycles on the first disc, another on the second), Benediction hymns, and the most familiar pieces marking the liturgical year. The final antiphons of Our Lady are sung in the simple (more modern) tone, two on each disc. Sung so superbly as they are here, these two discs are exactly what are needed for those who long to hear the familiar chants again. - Fanfare Here we have clean, sensibly phrased performances of 29 Gregorian melodies taken from the Liber Cantualis, each with its corresponding number in the Liber and respective place in the service and/or liturgical calendar. This recording contributes an intriguing strain to the debate over historical performance. The Monastic Choir of St. Peter's Abbey in Solesmes sings in a different dimension. Their tone is essentially clean, and their intonation impeccable. The result is a focused, calm, and consistent performance. They sing in a historically authentic mindset. This is a wholly satisfying offering, and a fine supplement to the body of recorded Gregorian chant. -Early Music America 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 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. There's something incredible fresh and new ... which is well worth your attention. -New Liturgical Movement 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

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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.

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