This is the second recording in a series illuminating the life of Jesus through the exquisite music of Gregorian chant. This particular volume includes well-known pieces alternating with brief antiphons to the public life and ministry of Christ. In addition, chant-based organ pieces form a frame around each volume in the series.
CRITICAL ACCLAIM
“These three single CDs contain a set of 92 Gregorian chants that recount the entire Christian message of redemption, from the coming of Christ to the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This program is a distinct contrast with chant discs that are arranged according to liturgical usage. Here it is the text that gives meaning to each selection, whatever the chant form may be. Antiphons from the Office are most numerous because they are invariably designed to tell the story of each feast, but responsories, hymns, and Mass propers are also found useful. When this interdenominational religious community of Cape Cod settled on Gregorian Chant as their method of common worship 27 years ago, they studied under Dr. Mary Berry. The new discs are the first to be recorded in the community's magnificent new church, dedicated in 2000. Since the community sings the entire Office daily, their superb delivery of the music is no surprise, given their long association with Dr. Berry, a longtime proponent of Dom Cardine's semiological interpretation. The voices are lovely, and the men and women generally alternate, except in climactic passages that naturally call for the union of voices in octaves. The first disc is framed by works of Guilmant and Widor, the second disc is framed by Gerald Near and Jean Langlais (with another Near piece midway through), and the third disc closes with another Near piece, all of these played by David Chalmers.”
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1. Prelude On Ave Colenda Trinitas :Near | 2. Babtizat Miles Regen (Antiphon Mode8 A) :trad.Chant | 3. In Columbae Specie (Responsory Mode2 A) :trad.Chant |
| 4. Ductus Est Jesus (Antiphon Mode1 A) :trad.Chant | 5. Dicit Andreas (Communion Mode8 B) :trad.Chant | 6. Dominus Secus Mare (Introit Mode8 B) :trad.Chant |
| 7. Beati Mundo Corde (Communion Mode1 B) :trad.Chant | 8. Vos Qui Reliquistis (Antiphon Mode1 C) :trad.Chant | 9. Qui Manducat (Communion Mode6 B) :trad.Chant |
| 10. Quinque Prudentes Virgines (Communion Mode5 D) :trad.Chant | 11. Simile Est Regnum Caelorum (Communion Mode8 E) :trad.Chant | 12. Dicit Dominus, Implete Hydrias (Communion Mode6 B) :trad.Chant |
| 13. In Diebus Illis (Antiphon Mode7 B) :trad.Chant | 14. Erat Quidan Regulus (Antiphon Mode1 C) :trad.Chant | 15. Cognovit Autem (Antiphon Mode3 C) :trad.Chant |
| 16. Dicebat Enin (Antiphon Mode1 F) :trad.Chant | 17. At Jesus Conversus (Antiphon Mode1 C) :trad.Chant | 18. Stans Autem Jesus (Antiphon Mode1 A) :trad.Chant |
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| 20. De Quinque Panibus (Antiphon Mode1 H) :trad.Chant | 21. Prelude On O Sacrum Convivium :Near |
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| 23. In Splendenti Nube (Responsory Mode2 B) :trad.Chant | 24. Ergo Sum Resurrectio (Mode2 D) :trad.Chant |
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| 26. Pricipes Sacerdotum (Antiphon Mode1 B) :trad.Chant | 27. Christus Factus Est (Gradual Mode5 F) :trad.Chant |
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| 29. Pueri Hebraeorum Portantes (Antiphon Mode1 E) :trad.Chant | 30. Intravit Jesus (Antiphon Mode1 B) :trad.Chant |
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| 32. Postquam Surrexit (Antiphon Mode4 I) :trad.Chant | 33. Ubi Caritas (Offertory Mode6 J) :trad.Chant |
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| 35. Hoc Corpus (Communion Mode8 F) :trad.Chant | 36. Pange Lingua (Hymn Mode3 C) :Aquinas |
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| 38. Confitemini Domino (Alleuia Mode8 D) :trad.Chant | 39. Trois Paraphrases Gregoriennes :Langlais |
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These three single CDs contain a set of 92 Gregorian chants that recount the entire Christian message of redemption, from the coming of Christ to the coming of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost. This program is a distinct contrast with chant discs that are arranged according to liturgical usage. Here it is the text that gives meaning to each selection, whatever the chant form may be. Antiphons from the Office are most numerous because they are invariably designed to tell the story of each feast, but responsories, hymns, and Mass propers are also found useful. When this interdenominational religious community of Cape Cod settled on Gregorian Chant as their method of common worship 27 years ago, they studied under Dr. Mary Berry. The new discs are the first to be recorded in the community's magnificent new church, dedicated in 2000. Since the community sings the entire Office daily, their superb delivery of the music is no surprise, given their long association with Dr. Berry, a longtime proponent of Dom Cardine's semiological interpretation. The voices are lovely, and the men and women generally alternate, except in climactic passages that naturally call for the union of voices in octaves. The first disc is framed by works of Guilmant and Widor, the second disc is framed by Gerald Near and Jean Langlais (with another Near piece midway through), and the third disc closes with another Near piece, all of these played by David Chalmers
