Chant Music For The Soul (2008)

Artist: Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heiligenkreuz
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Label: Universal Music Group
UPC: 00028947668220
Release Date: 7/1/2008
Buy.com Sku: 208163548
Item#: M476CS
Buy.com Sales Rank: 25530
Format:  CD

Song Listing

Disc 1
Song TitleSample
1. Laetatus sum ~ Anonymous
2. Subvenite sancti Dei ~ Anonymous
3. Libera me ~ Anonymous
4. Bell Toll ~ Anonymous
5. Missa pro defunctis: Requiem aeternam..Te decet hymnus "Introit" ~ Anonymous
6. Missa pro defunctis: Requiem aeternam..Te decet hymnus "Introit" ~ Anonymous
7. Missa pro defunctis: Requiem aeternam..Te decet hymnus "Introit" ~ Anonymous
8. Missa pro defunctis: Requiem aeternam..Te decet hymnus "Introit" ~ Anonymous
9. Missa pro defunctis: Requiem aeternam..Te decet hymnus "Introit" ~ Anonymous
10. Missa pro defunctis: Requiem aeternam..Te decet hymnus "Introit" ~ Anonymous
11. Missa pro defunctis: Requiem aeternam..Te decet hymnus "Introit" ~ Anonymous
12. Missa pro defunctis: Requiem aeternam..Te decet hymnus "Introit" ~ Anonymous
13. Missa pro defunctis: Requiem aeternam..Te decet hymnus "Introit" ~ Anonymous
14. Deus in adiutorium intende ~ Anonymous
15. Te lucis ante terminum ~ Anonymous
17. Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi ~ Anonymous
20. In manus tuas Domino commendo spiritum meum ~ Anonymous
21. Nunc dimittis ~ Anonymous
22. Kyrie eleison ~ Anonymous
23. Oremus: Visita, quaesumus Domine - Dominus vobiscum ~ Anonymous
24. Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae ~ Anonymous
25. Gregorian Chant(s) ~ Anonymous
26. Bell Toll ~ Anonymous
27. Veni creator spiritus ~ Anonymous
28. Spiritus Domini ~ Anonymous
29. Factus est repente ~ Anonymous

(P) 2008 Universal Classics & Jazz
(C) 2008 Universal Classics & Jazz

Chant, is the most peaceful music imaginable. Chant: Music for the Soul, is the ultimate in relaxation and stress relief - the perfect antidote to our fast-moving modern world. Chant has proven to heal, calm and also give strength; its power is timeless and universal. Previous albums of chant have sold in the tens of millions. Further fueling the huge general demand is Chant's use in the smash-hit computer game Halo - this is chant for a new computer-gaming generation.
 
""It's a pretty safe bet that very few of Universal Music's recent signings count Pope Benedict XVI among their fans. But the pontiff is a definite admirer of the latest boys in the hood(s) to sign globally to Universal Classics." "  Billboard

 
Album Notes and Credits

Notes & Personnel Info
Chant: Music for the Soul is a series of 29 biblically inspired meditations sung by monks at the Cistercian Abbey near Vienna, Austria, where the order has existed since the year 1133. Recorded and released in 2008, the album hit number one on the Austrian pop charts and reached the Top Ten in the U.K.. Profits from sales, it is said, will fund scholarships for students from other countries who wish to study at the Abbey, known locally as Stift Heiligenkreuz. The chants, largely based upon Psalms and including the Canticle of Simeon from the Book of Luke, are grouped into four breathtaking rituals whose titles translate as "Into Paradise," "Mass for the Dead," "Night Prayer" and "Spirit of the Lord." The most striking qualities of this music are the gentleness of the voices and the spatial and acoustic dynamics of the edifice within which the chanting was carried out. Gregorian chant is sung in Latin and in unison without any instrumentation, so as to create a devotional conduit directly from a group of individuals to the deity. One very simple melodic line is sung without harmony. The chants are composed in what is described as "a free musical rhythm that rises and falls in accord with the inner meaning of the melody and the words." As is the case with a cappella sacred music from cultures all over the world, the listener might well experience a near-complete suspension of the sense of the passage of time. While conventional musicologists have often bent over backwards to deny it, the Cistercians themselves openly state that "the melodies have their ultimate roots in the Jewish Temple Liturgy." During the 1990s, a resurgence of interest in Gregorian chant took place when traditional plainsong recordings by the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos began to sell in quantities usually associated with pop music. This surprising development eventually led to a series of weirdly inappropriate tribute albums to Elvis Presley, Elton John, ABBA, and Celine Dion wherein pop lyrics were incongruously filtered through the mouths of individuals who sang in the style of Gregorian chant, with instrumental accompaniment. While these crossover experiments (which corrupted the ancient formula and exploited the essence of the music) were perhaps inevitable, many feel that the results conveyed little more than shallow vulgarity and commercial debasement. Happily, and quite successfully, the Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz have given the world a beautiful recording that is faithful to the humble dignity of authentic plainsong. It may be savored and appreciated by individuals of any social background or spiritual inclination. Listeners may find it at once tremendously moving and wonderfully relaxing. Twice during the proceedings the voices fall silent as the bells of Stift Heiligenkreuz reverberate throughout the ancient structure. ~ arwulf arwulf

 
Technical Info
Release Date : 07/01/2008
Original Release Date : 2008
Catalog ID : B0011489
Label : London/Decca
Number of Discs : 1
Runtime : 0h : 53m
Mono/Stereo : Stereo
SPAR Code : n/a
UPC : 00028947668220

Detailed Track Info

1. In paradisum
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 4m : 28s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

2. Subvenite sancti Dei
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 2m : 28s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

3. Libera me
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 4m : 26s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

4. Bell Toll
Composer: Anonymous
Track Time: 1m : 36s

5. Messa pro defunctis
Composer: Anonymous
From Genre: Mass / Requiem
Track Time: 14m : 16s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

6. Deus in adiutorium intende
Composer: Anonymous
Date Written: 14th Century
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant / Vespers
Track Time: 0m : 49s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

7. Te lucis ante terminum
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 1m : 24s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

8. In noctibus benedicite Dominum...Invocantem exaudi me
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Antiphon / Chant / Psalm
Track Time: 2m : 33s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

9. Qui habitat in adjutorio Altissimi
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant / Psalm
Track Time: 3m : 46s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

10. Ecce benedicite Dominum, omnes servi Domini
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant / Psalm
Track Time: 1m : 12s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

11. Sobrii estote et vigilate
Composer: Anonymous
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 0m : 27s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

12. In manus tuas Domino commendo spiritum meum
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant / Responsory
Track Time: 0m : 40s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

13. Nunc dimittis
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 2m : 17s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

14. Kyrie eleison
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Kyrie / Chant
Track Time: 0m : 12s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

15. Oremus; Visita, quaesumus Domine
Composer: Anonymous
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 0m : 47s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

16. Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 2m : 47s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

17. Benedicat et custodiat nos
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 0m : 19s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

18. Bell Toll
Composer: Anonymous
Track Time: 1m : 36s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

19. Veni creator spiritus
Composer: Anonymous
Date Written: after 1300
Period: Medieval
Country: France
From Genre: Hymn / Chant
Track Time: 2m : 32s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

20. Spiritus Domini
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 2m : 38s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

21. Factus est repente
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 1m : 17s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

22. Kyrie eleison
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Kyrie / Chant
Track Time: 0m : 12s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

23. Oremus: Visita, quaesumus Domine - Dominus vobiscum
Composer: Anonymous
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 0m : 47s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

24. Salve, Regina, mater misericordiae
Composer: Anonymous
Date Written: 18th Century
Period: Baroque
Country: Bolivia
From Genre: Antiphon
Track Time: 2m : 47s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

25. Gregorian Chant(s)
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 0m : 19s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

26. Bell Toll
Composer: Anonymous
Track Time: 1m : 0s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

27. Veni creator spiritus
Composer: Anonymous
Date Written: after 1300
Period: Medieval
Country: France
From Genre: Hymn / Chant
Track Time: 2m : 32s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

28. Spiritus Domini
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 2m : 38s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey

29. Factus est repente
Composer: Anonymous
Period: Medieval
From Genre: Chant
Track Time: 1m : 17s
Ensemble: Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz Abbey
 

  
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