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Joyful Noise: Gregorian Chant by The Monastic Choir of St. Peter's Abbey of Solesmes

Every generation since the beginning of recorded music discovers Gregorian Chant. The most recent (re)discovery was in the mid-1990s with the phenomenally successful Chant CDs from The Benedictine ...
National Catholic Register

Gregorian Chant and Wine Is a Fruitful Pairing for These French Nuns

Famous for the beauty of their Gregorian chants, the Benedictine nuns of the Abbey Notre-Dame de Fidélité of Jouques in the Provence region have been developing wines of excellence since 1967. The ...
National Catholic Reporter

Churches may be in decline, but Gregorian chant beats secular competition

A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's classical music chart last week. The album, "Benedicta," was also the top overall seller at ...
SFGate

Move over, Madonna / A CD of Gregorian chants by a group of Cistercian monks is a surprise crossover hit, reaching the pop charts

It isn't every day that a group of Catholic monks find themselves on the pop charts. Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, ...
Catholic News Agency

'We wanted to involve our listeners in an experience of prayer'

The Benedictine Monks of Norcia spend their lives in prayer and labor – "ora et labora" – chanting the psalms and producing crafts to support themselves. This week, they also released an album meant ...