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Gregorian Book of Silos [IMPORT]

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by: Silos (Choeur Des Moines Bened

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Ego Sum Resurrectio

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from: Naxos

Release Date July 01, 1994
There is a beautiful mixture of male lead and female choir in this. I find it to be so relaxing and calming and peaceful.

What more needs to be said. Purchase and enjoy!

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Gregorian Chant for the Church Year

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by: Various Composers, Choralschola Vienna Hofburgkapelle

Release Date September 10, 2001
There is a beautiful mixture of male lead and female choir in this. I find it to be so relaxing and calming and peaceful.

What more needs to be said. Purchase and enjoy!

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Lodovico da Viadana: Missa Solemnis pro Defunctis

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from: Stradivarius

Release Date February 18, 1997
There is a beautiful mixture of male lead and female choir in this. I find it to be so relaxing and calming and peaceful.

What more needs to be said. Purchase and enjoy!

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Missa Solemnis Pro Defuntis

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by: Various Artists

Release Date January 17, 2000
There is a beautiful mixture of male lead and female choir in this. I find it to be so relaxing and calming and peaceful.

What more needs to be said. Purchase and enjoy!

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Cardoso - Manuel Cardoso Requiem

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from: Gimell

Release Date January 07, 2002
--Frei Manuel Cardoso--
Cardoso was born about 1566 in Lisbon. Part of the Portuguese renaissance (only recently becoming a topic of major study), his musical influences seem to lag behind a bit the rest of Europe, but have strong staying power also. A member of a Carmelite order in Lisbon, Cardoso was musically trained for liturgical and choir music; he had the Portuguese King John IV as a patron, who (like the Emperor of Austria who was a patron of the arts during Mozart's time) had a fine appreciation for music, and was himself a performer and composer. Cardoso produced many masses, motets, and some other kinds of music; he was directly influenced by Palestrina, among others. He died in 1650

--Motets and Magnificat--
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Frei Manuel Cardoso: Requiem

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by: Cardoso

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--Frei Manuel Cardoso--
Cardoso was born about 1566 in Lisbon. Part of the Portuguese renaissance (only recently becoming a topic of major study), his musical influences seem to lag behind a bit the rest of Europe, but have strong staying power also. A member of a Carmelite order in Lisbon, Cardoso was musically trained for liturgical and choir music; he had the Portuguese King John IV as a patron, who (like the Emperor of Austria who was a patron of the arts during Mozart's time) had a fine appreciation for music, and was himself a performer and composer. Cardoso produced many masses, motets, and some other kinds of music; he was directly influenced by Palestrina, among others. He died in 1650

--Motets and Magnificat--
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Chant

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by: Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heiligenkreuz

Release Date May 19, 2008
This Cistercian abbey has a continous history since its foundation. My only criticsm is that according to the Rule Cistercians should chant in the Ambrosian mode - very slow & ponderous, and this CD is a little too fast. One of the plus points is that Cistercians do not have choir boys so the overall effect is a deeper more inspiring chant.

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Chant: Music for Paradise

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by: Cistercian Monks

Release Date July 15, 2008
CONTEMPLATION IN A CLOISTER !

That the calm and the serenity conveyed by these chants, which have survived for approximately 1,500 years, is still relevant today, can be readily appreciated by the fact this recording stayed at the top of the best seller list an inordinately long period of time upon its release.

In addition, if one has a sense of history, listening to this music is like peering through a window into the distance past. The intervening hundreds of years seem to melt away.

Listening to this fascinating CD, one is transported several hundred years back in time to the peace and serenity of a medieval cloister. Gregorian chant has a mystical quality all its own; there is no instrumental to complicate ... Read More:

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Cardoso; Lôbo; Victoria - Requiems

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from: Gimell

Release Date August 29, 2005
CONTEMPLATION IN A CLOISTER !

That the calm and the serenity conveyed by these chants, which have survived for approximately 1,500 years, is still relevant today, can be readily appreciated by the fact this recording stayed at the top of the best seller list an inordinately long period of time upon its release.

In addition, if one has a sense of history, listening to this music is like peering through a window into the distance past. The intervening hundreds of years seem to melt away.

Listening to this fascinating CD, one is transported several hundred years back in time to the peace and serenity of a medieval cloister. Gregorian chant has a mystical quality all its own; there is no instrumental to complicate ... Read More: