Gloria In Excelsis Deo: Chant, Hymns And Sequences (National Public Radio Milestones Of The Millennium)

Editorial Reviews
Amazon.com
This is a genuinely useful introduction to chant. The carefully prepared, scholarly performances are still alive with feeling and meaning. The recordings, while filled with churchly resonance, are so clear you could take dictation from them. The many selections are highly varied and programmed for contrast, so that, contrary to most people's expectations, this disc will not put you to sleep. The program notes sketch briefly an interesting history of the music, useful for the general listener but not insulting to the specialist. All that's missing is the texts and translations, a strange omission that could spoil the disc for many potential listeners. --Leslie Gerber

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Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Te decet laus
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Gloria In excelsis Deo
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Aeterne rerum conditor
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Inventor rutili
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Mediae noctis tempus est
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: A solis ortus cardine
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Gloria, laus, et honor
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Sancti, venite, Christi corpus
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Congregavit nos In unum Christi amor
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Pange, lingua
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Hic est dies verus Dei
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Beata nobis gaudia
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Ave, maris stella
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Ut queant laxis
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Aurea luce
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Urbs beata Ierusalem
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: O quanta, qualia
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Alleluia, dulce carmen
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Grates nunc omnes, reddamus Domino Deo
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Victimae Paschali laudes
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Omnes gentes, plaudite
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Veni, Sancte Spiritus
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Lauda, Sion, Salvatorem
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Mundi aetate octava
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Ave maria...Virgo serena
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Alma redemptoris Mater quem
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Stabat Mater dolorosa
Chants, Hymns, And Sequences: Kirie - Virginitatis amator

Amazon.com

This is a genuinely useful introduction to chant. The carefully prepared, scholarly performances are still alive with feeling and meaning. The recordings, while filled with churchly resonance, are so clear you could take dictation from them. The many selections are highly varied and programmed for contrast, so that, contrary to most people's expectations, this disc will not put you to sleep. The program notes sketch briefly an interesting history of the music, useful for the general listener but not insulting to the specialist. All that's missing is the texts and translations, a strange omission that could spoil the disc for many potential listeners. --Leslie Gerber

Customer Reviews:

Needs the text and translation!.......2000-06-23

If this disc came with the text and translation for the chants, I would give it five stars. The description of the history of such chants is a good introduction, and the recording itself is crisp and clear.

However, if you don't already know a lot about chants or don't know Latin (mine's too rusty), the disc is little more than beautiful singing. If that's all you're after, I'd easily recommend this disc, but the text and translation are important enough to me that their absence is worth two stars.

Maybe the text and translations are available somewhere on the internet - I haven't checked yet.

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