Voices - Chants From Avignon

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Voices - Chants From Avignon
The Benediction Nuns

[ Decca Music Group / CD ]

Release Date: Thursday 18 November 2010

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"Decca searched high and low (70 convents across several continents) for the female equivalent of successful recent releases by the Priests and sundry chanting monks, before settling upon the Benedictine nuns of Abbaye Notre Dame de L'Annonciation, near Avignon." The Independent, 5th November 2010 ***

The Nuns of the Abbaye de Notre-Dame de l'Annonciation, from a remote region of France near Avignon, won a worldwide search to find the world's finest female singers of Gregorian Chant. The search took in over 70 convents, including communities as far afield as North America and Africa.

The Nuns' album will feature the most ancient form of Gregorian Chant, which the sisters sing eight times a day, and was the first music ever to be written down.

Tracks:

1. Overture: Invitatory Surrexit Dominus, Ps. 94
2. Sadness In Life: Introit Exsurge
3. Sadness In Life: Lamentation Oratio Jeremiae
4. Annunciation Bells
5. Sadness In Life: Sequence Dies irae
6. Sadness In Life: Tract Commovisti
7. Sadness In Life: Offertory Recordare
8. Sadness In Life: Alleluia Oportebat pati Christum
9. Stay With Us: Alleluia Cognoverunt
10. Stay With Us: Communion Panis
11. Stay With Us: Hymn Adoro te
12. Stay With Us: Introit Esto mihi
13. Stay With Us: Offertory In te speravi
14. Stay With Us: Sequence Veni Sancte Spiritus
15. Stay With Us: Antiphon Ubi caritas
16. Burning Hearts: Antiphon Nonne cor nostrum, Magnificat
17. Burning Hearts: Response Regnum mundi
18. Burning Hearts: Gradual Christus
19. Burning Hearts: Offertory Dextera Domini
20. Burning Hearts: Antiphon Alleluia, Ps. 116
21. Burning Hearts: Hymn Benedictus es
22. Annunciation Peal Of Bells