Track List

DISC 1

Chant of the Church of Milan
1. Lucernarium: Paravi lucernam Christo meo
2. Alleluia - Versus: Hodie in Bethlehem puer natus est

Chant from Benevento Cathedral The Adoration of the Cross
3. Antiphona: Otin to stauron / O quando in cruce
4. Responsorium: Amicus meus osculi me traditVersus: Retulit triginta argenteis

Chant of the Church of Rome Byzantine influences
5. Offertorium: Terra tremuit V. Notus in Iudea - V. Et factus est in pace - V. Ibi confregit

Old Roman Chant Vespers of Easter Day (6th-13th centuries)
6. Antiphona Alleluia. Psalmus 110 Confitebor. Antiphona Alleluia
7. Oratio Concede questimus
8. R. In die resurrectionis. V. Congregabo gentes

Gregorian Chant Gallican responsories and monophonic chants
9. Cum audisset. Gallican antiphon
10. Omnes amici mei. Responsory (Mode III)
11. Tristis est anima mea. Responsory (translation of a Byzantine chant)

Cistercian Chant Responsories of Matins for the Feast of St Bernard
12. Prima virtus viri sancti
13. Testamentum eternum
14. Oliva fructifera
15. Dedit Dominus confessionem sancto suo

DISC 2

1000: Mass for the End of Time
1. Alleluia II: Ascendens Cristus
2. Lectio: Apocalypsis 21:1-5
3. Prosa: Regnantem sempiterna
4. Hymnus: Cives celestis patrie

The Great Pilgrimages The Miracles of St James
5. Invitatio: Venites omnes cristicole
6. Responsorium: O adiutor omnium seculorum

Abelard and Heloise: from Saint-Denis to the Paraclete Monastic Song
7. O quanta qualia
8. Virgines caste
9. Planctus cigne
10. De profundis

Towards the Gothic Era Saint-Matial of Limoges and Aquitaine
11. Resonemus hoc natali
12. In hoc anni circulo
13. Orienti oriens

Between the early Middle Ages and the thirteenth century, the great abbeys were key artistic centres, the focus of intensive musical creation. From Santiago de Compostela to Saint-Denis, from Royaumont to Fontevraud by way of Mont Saint-Michel, the walls of these imposing edifices echoed to the finest voices in the medieval West, in the service of the original sung repertory of the Roman Church: Gregorian chant. This anthology is an invitation to explore eight centuries of sacred music as it was celebrated in such monastic houses.