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Product Description

19 songs

Track Listing

1. Puer natus est nobis, introit in mode 7
2. Os iusti, gradual in mode 1
3. Christus factus est, gradual in mode 5 (Liber Usualis, No 655)
4. Mandatum novum do vobis, antiphon & Psalm 132 in Mode 3
5. Media vita in morte sumus, responsory in mode 4
6. Alleluia, beatus vir qui suffert, in mode 1
7. Spiritus Domini, introit in mode 8 (Liber Usualis, No 878b)
8. Improperium exspectavit cor meum, offertory in mode 8 for Palm Sunday
9. Laetatus sum, gradual in mode 7 (Liber Usualis No. 560, GR 139)
10. Kyrie XI, in mode 1
11. Puer natus in Bethlehem, in mode 1
12. Jacta cogitatum tuum, gradual in mode 7
13. Verbum caro factum est, responsory in mode 8 (Liber Usualis No. 390)
14. Genuit puerpera regen, antiphon & Psalm 99 (Mode II)
15. Occuli omnium, gradual in mode 7
16. Ave mundi spes Maria, sequence in modes 7 & 8
17. Kyrie fons bonitatis, trope in mode 3
18. Veni sancte spiritus, sequence in mode 1
19. Hosanna filio David, antiphon in mode 7 (GR 137)

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3967 in Music
• Brand: Spring Arbor/Ingram
• Released on: 1994-03-15
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .21 pounds

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Thanks to good marketing, good cover art, and good luck, this disc probably has sold more copies than most other recordings of Gregorian chant put together. It's often quipped that most of those discs have been listened to exactly once and put away--to the puzzlement of many musicians and critics, who point out that there are more beautiful, more varied performances by professional singers available. Yet the singing of these Spanish Benedictines has a special quality that probably explains this disc's popularity--a reverent serenity that no doubt stems from the fact that the monks are actually praying, not just performing. Granted, Chant can become a bit monotonous with repeated listening, but it really gives you the sense of devotion that has always been the purpose of "Gregorian" chant. If this recording (ahem) enchants you at first, wonderful. If you get bored with it later, don't give up--there has been an extraordinary variety of styles and sounds over the 1,500-year history of plainchant, so go exploring with Anonymous 4, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Sequentia, or Ensemble Organum. You won't be sorry. --Matthew Westphal