The Monks of Norcia: Benedicta: Marian Chant from Norcia

The Monks of Norcia team up with 11-time Grammy Award-winning producer Christopher Alder and Grammy Award-winning sound engineer Jonathan Stokes to release BENEDICTA: Marian Chant from Norcia, an album of stunning Gregorian chant that transports the listener to the Monks’ idyllic monastery in Italy. Their debut album on De Montfort Music/Decca/UMC, BENEDICTA consists of 33 tracks of Marian chant, including the well-known “Regina Caeli” and “Ave Regina Caelorum” as well as original and previously unreleased songs. The Benedictine Monks of Norcia (Italian: Monastero di San Benedetto di Norcia) are a monastic community located in Norcia (formerly Nursia), Italy, in the extreme southeast tip of Umbria beneath the slopes of the Sibylline Mountains. The current monastery is physically located above the 5th century ruins of the house of St. Benedict and his twin sister St. Scholastica, and has been the location of monastic communities since the tenth century AD. The current Benedictine community was founded in Rome on September 3, 1998, by several men from the United States, including the current prior who, before founding the community, was in the world-renowned music program for voice at Indiana University. They were charged by Rome to care for the Basilica of San Benedetto (built over the birthplace of St Benedict and St Scholastica) and for the many visiting pilgrims. The monks chant several times per day and pray in monastic silence. They have gained a following worldwide, particularly in Italy and the United States, through their brewery, which produces their original brew called Birra Nursia.

1: Bells from the Basilica
2: Ave Maria...Virgo Serena
3: Dominus Possedit Me
4: Nihil Inquinatum
5: Ait Dominus
6: Beatissimae
7: Regali Ex Progenie
8: Solem Justitiae
9: Ecce Virgo Concipiet
10: Gaude Maria
11: Gabriel Angelus
12: Sancta Et Immaculata
13: Rubum Quem Viderat
14: Alma Redemptoris Mater
15: Tuam Ipsius Animam
16: Cui Comparabo Te?
17: Vadis Propitiator
18: Ave Regina Caelorum
19: Laetare Virgo Mater
20: Regina Caeli
21: Concordi Laetitia
22: Benedixit Te
23: Vidi Speciosam
24: Virgo Prudentissima
25: Virgo Parens Christi
26: Sub Tuum Praesidium
27: Ab Initio
28: Ave Maria
29: O Gloriosa Domina
30: Ave Maris Stella
31: Nos Qui Christi Iugum
32: Salve Regina
33: Benedicta

Number of Discs: 1

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