Crux Fidelis
Gregorian Chant (Sacred Scripture)
Consortium Vocale / Alexander Schweitzer

Gregorian chant, in its all-embracing spirituality and poetry, appeals to the deeper levels of the human heart. Monks in the Middle Ages composed and performed this music as an integrated part of their daily occupation with Sacred Scripture. Throughout the centuries Gregorian chant has enriched and deepened the liturgy of the church, and has been a source of inspiration in every period of European music history. Under the leadership of Alexander M. Schweitzer, Consortium Vocale presents chants from the five Sundays of Lent, Palm Sunday and Good Friday, recorded in the medieval church at Ringsaker in Norway.

Album: EXAUDIAM EUM - Gregorian Chant for Lent and Holy Week (2L43SACD)
Recording venue: Ringsaker Church, September 2006
Original source: DXD (352.8kHz/24bit)

Consortium Vocale: Crux Fidelis (gregorian chant)

Veni Creator Spiritus

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Sacred Treasures: Choral Masterpieces From Russia

Sung by the finest Russian and Bulgarian choirs, this extraordinary collection of transcendent prayers and hymns highlights a timeless Russian tradition of faith and devotion. For sheer beauty, there is little to match it anywhere in the world. The solemn ecstasy in the music of the Russian Orthodox Church can trace its roots back to the earliest days of Christian worship, via the great Byzantine Empire of the Near East. It presents an uncompromising search for peaks and depths of expressive fervor, aloof from all gimmicks. That was true of the music's multi-cultural roots as monastic chant, and was maintained as it evolved into full choral harmony in the late Romantic period.

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Great Ektenia

SACRED TREASURES | "Great Ektenia" from Rachmaninov's Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom, Op. 31

SACRED TREASURES V: FROM A RUSSIAN CATHEDRAL features mainly 20th century and contemporary composers. There are several selections from "Liturgy of Peace" by Archbishop lonafan (Yeletskyh) of Kiev in which the eastern "Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom" is sung to the melodies of Western Gregorian chants, creating a musical synthesis of the two traditions.

Nikolai Kedrov Sr.'s famous setting of "The Lord's Prayer" is sung by the Eva Quartet in traditional Bulgarian women's folk style. 

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SACRED TREASURES V | "The Lord's Prayer" (Nikolai Kedrov Sr.)

Kyrie XI
Orbis Factor
Saint Francis de Sales Oratory
Saint Louis, MO

Kyrie, Orbis Factor

Marianne Lihannah (mezzo soprano) sings and Liz Leachman is the pianist. 
This very beautiful 'Ave Maria' is less well-known and
commonly attributed to the wonderful Baroque composer Giulio Caccini (1551--1618). (highly doubtful)
Also attributed to Vladimir Vavilov (1925--1973) (more likely)

From Wikipedia: see Ave Maria (disambiguation)
"Ave Maria" is a popular and much recorded aria composed by Vladimir Vavilov around 1970. It is a musical hoax generally misattributed to Baroque composer Giulio Caccini. Vavilov himself published and recorded it on the Melodiya label with the ascription to "Anonymous" in 1972. It is believed that the work received its ascription to Giulio Caccini after Vavilov's death, by an organist Mark Shakhin (one of its performers on the mentioned "Melodiya" longplay), who gave the "newly discovered scores" to other musicians; then in an arrangement made by the organist Oleg Yanchenko for the recording by Irina Arkhipova in 1987; then the piece came to be famous worldwide

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Songs for the Celebration of Life

Ave Maria

Vavilov: Ave Maria | attributed to Caccini | Marianne Lihannah | Mezzo | Liz Leachman | Piano

Apostles' Creed in Latin - Gregorian chant (Credo in Deum)
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PDF notation and Latin text: https://bit.ly/2KfV8CD
(I begin on G and end on E, as written. However, I interpret the syllable placement at the ends of phrases slightly differently.)
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The Apostles' Creed is the one recited at the beginning of the Rosary, *not* the Nicene Creed normally used during Mass (however, the Apostles' Creed is sometimes used at Mass during Lent/Easter). This prayer is also called "The Symbol of the Apostles" - in Latin, "Symbolum Apostolorum" or "Symbolum Apostolicum."
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Latin text: 

Credo in Deum Patrem omnipotentem, Creatorem caeli et terrae,
  et in Iesum Christum, Filium Eius unicum, Dominum nostrum,
  qui conceptus est de Spiritu Sancto, natus ex Maria Virgine,
  passus sub Pontio Pilato, crucifixus, mortuus, et sepultus,
  descendit ad infernos, tertia die resurrexit a mortuis,
  ascendit ad caelos, sedet ad dexteram Dei Patris omnipotentis,
  inde venturus est iudicare vivos et mortuos.
Credo in Spiritum Sanctum,
  sanctam Ecclesiam catholicam, sanctorum communionem,
  remissionem peccatorum,
  carnis resurrectionem,
  vitam aeternam.
Amen.
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English text:

I believe in God,
the Father Almighty,
Creator of heaven and earth,
and in Jesus Christ, His only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died and was buried;
He descended into hell;
on the third day He rose again from the dead;
He ascended into heaven,
and is seated at the right hand of God the Father Almighty;
from there He will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the Holy Catholic Church,
the communion of Saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and life everlasting.
Amen.

Apostles' Creed in Latin - Gregorian chant (Credo in Deum)

This was recorded during Holy Mass at the Basilica of San Benedetto in Norcia, Italy. It is the Benedictine monks singing the Gradual and Sequence (parts of the Mass) in Latin for the feast of St. Benedict - July 11, 2012.

Monks of Norcia - Holy Mass - Gradual and Sequence - Feast of St. Benedict - July 11.2012

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