Essential Gregorian Chant - Over 2 hours of timeless contemplation - EMI Classics

Among the oldest pieces of music known to man today the chants known as plainsong that have been sung for many hundreds of years by monks in Christian monasteries. Gregorian chant is named after Pope Gregory the Great (540-604). According to medieval legend, he was inspired by God with the simple, plaintive melodies that ever since have formed the chief means by which monastic communities praise God in song. Though the origins of chant pre-date Gregory's time, and though the bulk of surviving chant was composed from the eight to the tenth centuries, the story about Gregory has some basis in fact: this highly learned and cultivate pope was certainly instrumental in gathering together and rationalizing the diverse body of chants that already existed in his time. The chants are group according to the various events and festivals in the church year, and the piece which opens the mass on the first Sunday in Advent at the very beginning of the church year is 'Ad te levavi', heard here as track 6 on CD 1. The first CD ends with a group of chants sung on Palm Sunday, and the second CD begins with chants for Holy Week, the most important part of the festival of Easter. These timeless chants have found new favor with modern audiences because of their serene beauty and their ability to evoke feelings of tranquility and relaxation.

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Chant, Gregorian : Puer natus est nobis, introit

Conductor: Ismael Cu
Running Time: 3 min. 40 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Genuit puerpera regen, antiphon & Psalm 99 (Mode II)

Conductor: Ismael Cu
Running Time: 3 min. sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Ave mundi spes Maria, sequence in modes 7 & 8

Conductor: Ismael Cu
Running Time: 4 min. 22 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Occuli omnium, gradual in mode 7

Conductor: Ismael Cu
Running Time: 3 min. 26 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Veni creator spiritus, hymn in mode 8

Conductor: Ismael Cu
Running Time: 2 min. 39 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Written: by 1000

Chant, Gregorian : Ad te levavi, introit in mode 8 for the 1st Sunday in Advent

Running Time: 4 min. 5 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Rorate caeli desuper

Running Time: 5 min. 7 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Viderunt omnes, gradual in mode 5 (Liber Usualis, no 409; GR. 33)

Running Time: 3 min. 45 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Crux fidelis, inter omnes, hymn (GR 182)

Running Time: 6 min. 45 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Pascha nostrum / Victimae paschali

Performer: Peter Matthews (Organ)
Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
Period Time: Renaissance

Chant, Gregorian : Salve festa dies, hymn in mode 4

Performer: Peter Matthews (Organ)
Running Time: 4 min. 14 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Sub tuum praesidium, antiphon in mode 7

Running Time: 1 min. sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Anglorum Iam Apostolus

Performer: Peter Matthews (Organ)
Running Time: 2 min. 58 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Salve regina (solemn mode), antiphon in mode 1

Performer: Peter Matthews (Organ)
Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.

Chant, Gregorian : Hosanna filio David, antiphon in mode 7 (GR 137)

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Pueri hebræorum portantes, antiphon in mode 1 (Liber Usualis no 581; GR 138)

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 2 min. 16 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Pueri hebræorum vestimenta, antiphon, mode 1 (Liber Usualis no 582; GR 140)

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 2 min. 11 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Gloria laus et honor

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 3 min. 26 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Ingrediente Domino, response in mode 2 (Liber Usualis no 590, GR 142)

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 2 min. 25 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Christus factus est, gradual in mode 5 (Liber Usualis, No 655)

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 3 min. 12 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Improperium, offertory

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Pater, communion in mode 8

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 1 min. 59 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : De ore leonis, responsory in mode 4

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 1 min. 50 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Ubi caritas, offertory in mode 8

Conductor: Philibert Zobel
Running Time: 2 min. 55 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Ecce vidimus, responsory in Mode 5

Conductor: Philibert Zobel
Running Time: 3 min. 56 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : De Lamentatione leremiae Prophetae (matins)

Conductor: Philibert Zobel
Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.

Chant, Gregorian : Ecce quomodo, responsory in mode 4 (Liber Usualis no 728)

Conductor: Philibert Zobel
Running Time: 5 min. 14 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Missa de Angelis (Mass of the Angels)

Conductor: Laurentino de Burua
Running Time: 2 min. 56 sec.
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Ad coenam agni providi

Performers: Dom Stockford (Organ); Peter Matthews (Organ)
Running Time: 3 min. 30 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Attende Domine

Running Time: 3 min. 6 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Venite Filii, gradual in mode 5 (Liber Usualis no 1010)

Running Time: 2 min. 21 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Pange lingua, hymn

Performers: Peter Matthews (Organ); Dom Stockford (Organ)
Running Time: 3 min. 31 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Laeta quies magni ducis, sequence on the feast of St. Benedict

Performers: Dom Stockford (Organ); Peter Matthews (Organ)
Running Time: 2 min. 34 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Veni Sancte Spiritus

Performers: Dom Stockford (Organ); Peter Matthews (Organ)
Running Time: 2 min. 41 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Domine Jesu Christe, offertory

Running Time: 3 min. 48 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : A solis ortus cardine, hymn in mode 3 (Liber Usualis no 400)

Performers: Dom Stockford (Organ); Peter Matthews (Organ)
Running Time: 4 min. 25 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Alma redemptoris mater, antiphon

Performers: Peter Matthews (Organ); Dom Stockford (Organ)
Running Time: 2 min. sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Puer natus in Bethlehem, in mode 1

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 2 min. 3 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Dies sanctificatus, alleluia

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 2 min. 28 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Christe Redemptor omnium, hymn in mode 1

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 3 min. sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Christus natus est nobis

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 3 min. 27 sec.
Period Time: Medieval

Chant, Gregorian : Verbum Caro Factum Est, responsory, mode 6

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 4 min. 8 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Chant, Gregorian : Traditor & Benedictus, antiphon in mode 1

Conductor: Francisco Lara
Running Time: 4 min. 40 sec.
Period Time: Medieval
Form: Choral

Essential Gregorian Chant - Over 2 hours of timeless contemplation

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