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Chant: Music For The Soul | 
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| Artist: The Cistercian Monks Of Stift Heiligenkreuz
Creators: Chant, Cistercian Monks
Label: Decca
Category: Music
List Price: $16.98
Buy New: $10.06
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Rating:  26 reviews
Sales Rank: 59
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.4
MPN: 001148902
UPC: 028947668220
EAN: 0028947668220
ASIN: B0019D3DAQ
Release Date: July 1, 2008
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| Tracks:
| • | Antiphon In Paradisum and Psalm | | • | Response Subvenite | | • | Response Libera me | | • | Stift Heiligenkreuz Bells | | • | Introitus Requiem æternam | | • | Kyrie | | • | Graduale Requiem æternam | | • | Tractus Absolve | | • | Offertorium Domine Jesu Christe | | • | Sanctus | | • | Acclamato Post Elevationem | | • | Agnus Dei | | • | Communio Lux æterna | | • | Deus in adiutorium | | • | Hymn Te lucis ante terminum | | • | Psalm 4 | | • | Psalm 90 (91) | | • | Psalm 133 | | • | Lectio brevis | | • | Responsorium breve | | • | Canticum Simeonis Nunc dimittis | | • | Kyrie | | • | Oratio conclusiva | | • | Salve Regina | | • | Benedictio | | • | Stift Heiligenkreuz bells | | • | Hymn Veni Creator Spiritus | | • | Introitus in Dominica Pentecostes | | • | Communio in Dominica Pentecostes |
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Album Description
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.
Album Description
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. One of the earliest known forms of music dating from the early Middle Ages, Gregorian chant was popularized by Enigma and the Benedictine Monks of Silos in the early and mid-1990s. Its hauntingly simple and hypnotic sound has attracted many followers, and Universal is determined to find the real masters of this music to perform a 21st Century version.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 21 more reviews...
 Glorious! December 18, 2008
C. Brinkler (Newcastle ME)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a very enchanting album. One is transported to another place and time. A place of peace, a place of hope. The sound of their voices and the ringing of the church bells is heavenly.
Heavenly! December 10, 2008
TK Charm
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Absolutley love this CD! Very calming and relaxing. The voices are from out of this world. Feel your soul sore and heart open.
Highly recommend
Wonderfully soothing November 16, 2008
Island Girl (Hagatna, Guam)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
I listen to this in my car between stops and I love how the songs soothe my spirit, especially when hectic schedules stress me out!
Ravishing chant October 22, 2008
Michael J. Mello (San Anselmo, CA USA)
3 out of 4 found this review helpful
I agree with reviewer J. Anderson that this is a "consummately attractive collection" of Gregorian chant. However, that the "divine interior pulse of Gregorian chant seems often lost by overconsideration" seems to me a gratuitous and purely subjective judgment. To these ears, the monks of Heiligenkreuz probably include vocal training in their preparation of the chant, not a quality one primarily associates with the singing of Solesmes (think of the "Solesmes scoop"). Historically, a great part of the Gregorian repertoire was written for scholae cantorae, singers whose training and experience was above and beyond the capabilities of the "average" monk or chanting celebrant. Singing even some of the simpler yet still magnificent Introits such as the "Requiem" on this disc required and still requires significant vocal culture. Again, to these ears, it seems that these monks sing with that consummate "elan vital" so prized by Dom Mocquereau, one of the great leaders of Solesmes chant. I am also put off by Anderson's characterization of their use of standard Germanic pronunciation of the Latin -- not a "mixed classical pronunciation" as the reviewer states -- as a "transgression" of Italian pronunciation. "Trangression" implies spiritual deviation -- a "sin" in other words. At the least, it is a strange term to use to describe a common practice, both historically and at present, to use the Latin pronunciation of one's native linguistic tradition, thus an English, or German, or Spanish or even a French pronunciation of the Latin in addition to the Italian which has been more prevalent in America. Nothing "transgressive" about German monks singing with German Latin pronunciation! At any rate, I am pleased that Anderson recommends this recording as mostly praiseworthy -- but in my estimation, 5 stars.
supreme spirituality October 1, 2008
Walter Reimann
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is one of the most beautiful sacred music ever, you reach peace, sublimity in a humble heart.
Please visit Heiligenkreuz when in Vienna, a delightful short trip (try to find out when the Cistercian monks sing in the church) you'll never forget the experience.
Walter M. Reimann
Toronto,Canada
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