Blessings, Peace & Harmony / Monks Of The Desert

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Label
Sony Masterworks
Release Date
April 24, 2012
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The remarkable Monks of the Desert, who spend their daily hours praying for peace, working and studying in silence, make their major label debut on Sony Masterworks with an album of Gregorian chant, Blessings, Peace and Harmony. Named after Pope Gregory I, Gregorian chant involves the early Christian liturgical music that originated in medieval times and forms the roots of Western classical music.

“The kind of singing that we do calms the spirit and helps us live in peace with our world and with one another,” says Abbot Philip Lawrence, a scholar of chant who also leads the monastery of Christ in the Desert. “According to various studies, chanting has some strange effect on brain waves,” notes Abbot Philip. In modern times, many people have been attracted to Gregorian chant – believer or non-believer. There is something ethereal and transcendent about the sound, not only as entertainment, but as a deepening of a life of prayer, inner peace and sharing with others. The Monks believe that Gregorian chant is a way of touching hearts and minds. With Blessings, Peace and Harmony they hope to bring others into a world in which peace, inner tranquility and an appreciation of beauty prevail.


Product Description:

  • Release Date: April 24, 2012


  • UPC: 886979020429


  • Catalog Number: 88697902042


  • Label: Sony Masterworks


  • Number of Discs: 1


  • Composer: Monks Of The Desert


  • Performer: Monks Of The Desert



Works:

  1. Alma Redemptoris Mater, antiphon

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  2. Salve Regina, antiphon in mode 1

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  3. Ave mundi spes Maria, sequence in modes 7 & 8

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  4. Kyrie IV

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  5. Sanctus IV

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  6. Agnus Dei IV

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  7. Parce Domine

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  8. Salve festa dies, hymn in mode 4

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  9. Kyrie III, in mode 4

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  10. Gloria III, in mode 8

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  11. Sanctus III, for the Ordinary in mode 4

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  12. Agnus Dei III, mode 4, GR 724

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  13. Confitemini, alleluia in mode 8 for Easter

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  14. Alleluia. Vir Dei benedictus

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  15. Allelulia. Paratum cor meum, Alleluia, III

    Composer: Anonymous

    Ensemble: Monks Of The Desert


  16. Salve Mater, canticum in mode 5

    Composer: Anonymous


  17. Stabat Mater, sequence

    Composer: Anonymous


  18. Gloria IX in 7th mode, GR. 742

    Composer: Anonymous


  19. Rorate caeli

    Composer: Anonymous


  20. Puer natus est nobis, introit in mode 7

    Composer: Anonymous


  21. O Filii et filiae

    Composer: Anonymous


  22. Justus germinabit, alleluia in mode 1 (Liber Usualis, 1192)

    Composer: Anonymous


  23. De profundis clamavi, offertory in mode 2 (Liber Usualis 1076; GR 388)

    Composer: Anonymous