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The Best Christmas Album ever! Beautiful Gregorian Chant by the Benedictine Monks. They did it again!!

Chant group Psallentes consists of six professional singers, presenting a vivid performance of fifteenth century chant. Here you can listen to the antiphon 'Gratias tibi deus' while watching the same in the original manuscript (B-Gu 15/1: an antiphoner from the Abbey of Bavo in Ghent, 1481). This version is sung solo, by Conor Biggs. This is from the cd 'Etienne de Liège - In festo sanctissimae Trinitatis' RIC 249. Buy the cd at www.ricercar.be

This is the Regina Caeli, sung in a much more solemn mode than the simple tone.

The video shows the entering procession, chanting of the Responsory and the Evangelical Canticle (Magnificat), part of the Service of Vespers of the Easter Sunday.
It was recorded at the Benedictine Monastery of Our Lady of Assumption in São Paulo, Brazil, in 2006.

Chant group Psallentes consists of six professional singers, presenting a vivid performance of fifteenth century chant. Here you can listen to the antiphon 'Ex quo omnia' (in an alternative version) while watching the same in the original manuscript (B-Gu 15/1: an antiphoner from the Abbey of Bavo in Ghent, 1481). This is from the cd 'Etienne de Liège - In festo sanctissimae Trinitatis' RIC 249. Buy the cd at www.ricercar.be - other discs available as well. Check it out!

(Liber Usualis, p. 809)

Here is my attempt at singing the Introit for Low Sunday or The Octave of Easter. I do not claim any expertise in the singing of gregorian chant so please forgive any inaccuracies on my part. I already noticed that I didn't go low enough on the "a" in alleluia after concupiscite.

Latin:

Quasimodo geniti infantes, alleluia:
rationabiles, sine dolo lac concupiscite, alleluia, alleluia, alleluia.

English:

As newborn babes, alleluia, desire the rational milk without

Liber Usualis, p. 852

Gregorian chant

1. Salutis humanæ Sator,
Jesu, voluptas cordium,
Orbis redempti Conditor,
Et casta lux amantium:

2. Que victus es clementia,
Ut nostra ferres crimina?
Mortem subires innocens,
A morte nos ut tolleres?

3. Perrumpis infernum chaos;
Vinctis catenas detrahis;
Victor triumpho nobili
Ad dexteram Patris sedes.

4. Te cogat indulgentia,
Ut damna nostra sarcias
Tuique vultus compotes
Dites beato lumine.

5. Tu dux ad astra, et semita,
Sis

Chant group Psallentes consists of six professional singers, presenting a vivid performance of fifteenth century chant. Here you can listen to the responsory 'Gloria Patri' while watching the same in the original manuscript (B-Gu 15/1: an antiphoner from the Abbey of Bavo in Ghent, 1481). This is from the cd 'Etienne de Liège - In festo sanctissimae Trinitatis' RIC 249.

Chant group Psallentes was founded by Hendrik Vanden Abeele in 2000, with the aim to explore the performance practice and the repertoi

The album regroups a selection of the most beautiful and well-known pieces of chant from the Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos. It is ideal for listeners wanting to discover music created in the 12th century -- music that continues to be passed from generation to generation.

Angus Dei Gregorian Chant sung by the Monastic Choir of the Abbey of Notre Dame de Fontgombault.
Stained glass window photos from around the world.

--I don't own the music or photos used to create this video--

Chant group Psallentes consists of six professional singers, presenting a vivid performance of fifteenth century chant. Here you can listen to the antiphon 'Te invocamus' while watching the same in the original manuscript (B-Gu 15/1: an antiphoner from the Abbey of Bavo in Ghent, 1481). There is a small element of kitsch involved as well - why not. This is from the cd 'Etienne de Liège - In festo sanctissimae Trinitatis' RIC 249. Buy the cd at www.ricercar.be

Liber Usualis, pp. 57-58

I realize more "expressiveness" is needed and obviously Gregorian chant is supposed to be sung in a group.

Chant group Psallentes consists of six professional singers, presenting a vivid performance of late medieval chant. Here you can listen to (part of) the prosa 'Advocatam' while watching the same in the original manuscript (E-Bc 911, which is a cantorale from Girona). This is from the cd 'Llibre Vermell de Montserrat' RIC 260. Buy the cd at www.ricercar.be - other discs available as well. Check it out!

(Liber Usualis, pp. 809-810)

I am hoping this will be of particular help to choirs who have the great privilege of singing Gregorian chant during the Mass.

Alleluia, alleluia. In die resurrectionis meae, dicit Dominus, praecedam vos in Galilaeam.

On the day of My Resurrection, saith the Lord, I will go before you into Galilee.

Chant group Psallentes consists of six professional singers, presenting a vivid performance of fifteenth century chant. Here you can listen to the antiphon 'Mater Patris' while watching the same in the original manuscript (E-Bc 911, which is a cantorale from Girona). This is from the cd 'Llibre Vermell de Montserrat' RIC 260. Buy the cd at www.ricercar.be - other discs available as well. Check it out!

Chant group Psallentes consists of six professional singers, presenting a vivid performance of late medieval chant. Here you can listen to (part of) the prosa 'Ave Maria' while watching the same in the original manuscript (E-Bc 911, which is a cantorale from Girona). This is from the cd 'Llibre Vermell de Montserrat' RIC 260. Buy the cd at www.ricercar.be - other discs available as well. Check it out!

This is part of the gregorian chant prosa 'Ave Maria'. Listen while watching the same in the original manuscript (E-Bc 911, which is a cantorale from Girona). This is from the cd 'Llibre Vermell de Montserrat' RIC 260. Buy the cd at www.ricercar.be - other discs available as well. Check it out!
Psallentes. Chant professionals since 2000. Founded and directed by Hendrik Vanden Abeele
www.psallentes.be

Chant group Psallentes consists of six professional singers, presenting a vivid performance of late medieval chant. Here you can listen to the antiphon 'Mater Patris' while watching the same in the original manuscript (E-Bc 911, which is a cantorale from Girona). This is from the cd 'Llibre Vermell de Montserrat' RIC 260. Buy the cd at www.ricercar.be - other discs available as well. Check it out!