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Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael's Abbey
Anthology: Chants and Polyphony from St. Michael's Abbey
Genres: Pop, Classical

Track Listings (18) - Disc #1
1. Ad precis nostras, hymn for 5 voices (from Complete Hymns): Tu Nobis Dona
2. Vexilla regis prodeunt, hymn for 5 voices (from Complete Hymns) (unspecified of 2): Arbor Decora
3. Exultet jam angelica turba caeolorum, for chorus
4. Jubilate Deo universa, offertory in mode 1, (Liber Usualis, 486b)
5. Qui confidunt, tractus
6. Cantemus Domino VIII, canticle for Easter
7. Laudate Dominum, offertorium
8. Vinea facta est dilecto in cornu, tract
9. Adtende celum, tract in mode 8
10. Sicut cervus desiderat, canticle (GR 239I)
11. Ave Maria, motet (unspecified of 5)
12. Panis angelicus, hymn
13. Spiritus Domini replevit orbem terrarum, introit in mode 8 (Liber Usualis No. 1279)
14. Veni Sancte Spiritus, alleluia in mode 4
15. Alleluia. Veni Sancte Spiritus
16. Confirma Hoc Deus, offeratory in mode 4
17. Factus est repente, communio
18. Verbum caro factum est, responsory in mode 8 (Liber Usualis No. 390)

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All Artists: Norbertine Fathers of St. Michael's Abbey
Title: Anthology: Chants and Polyphony from St. Michael's Abbey
Members Wishing: 0
Total Copies: 0
Label: Milan Records
Original Release Date: 1/1/2009
Re-Release Date: 2/10/2009
Genres: Pop, Classical
Styles: Vocal Pop, Opera & Classical Vocal, Historical Periods, Early Music, Sacred & Religious
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 731383641824

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After "Christmas at St. Michael's Abbey" - "The singing on this album is so very beautiful, and thoroughly authentic," California Catholic Daily - Jade Music is proud to release the second album by the Norbertine Fathers: Anthology: Chants and Polyphony from St. Michael's Abbey, another rare release of chants and polyphony from a domestic U.S. abbey.

The eclectic selection on this album is a cross-section of music sung at the abbey that includes chants from the liturgy as well as motets and music from the Renaissance era. These latter are sung on more solemn occasions like Easter, Pentecost, Christmas, and other great feasts of the liturgical year. "Anthology: Chants and Polyphony from St. Michael's Abbey" is a testimony of the vigor and subtle beauty of Gregorian chant as sung today in the USA.

St. Michael's Abbey is a community of Norbertine Canons Regular in Orange County, California. Its first members were Hungarian priests who escaped communism to find refuge in the United States in 1957. The community was raised to the status of an abbey in 1984, because of its growth. St. Michael's Abbey now numbers nearly 70 members.

CD Reviews

Brilliant... again!

M+ | Temecula, CA USA | 02/24/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"I own both album of St. Michael's Abbey - Christmas and now Anthology... It's simply DIVINE! "Anthology" is definitely "easier" to listen to since it combines polyphony and Gregorian chant. The best place to listen to the Fathers is at the abbey itself :) They "perform" every day!"

Exactly What You Would Expect

S. Cruikshank | 05/01/2009

(5 out of 5 stars)

"Again the Father's put out another extremely faithful and beautiful compilation. Premonstratensian chant at its best. This along with their Christmas CD really do bring a sense of peace that is penetrating, the very next best thing to being there. They sing the office daily, and to hear them on CD while maintaining that authenticity is amazing. I'm there multiple times a week, and to have the opportunity to "take them with me" as it were is a big bonus. This isn't a novelty to them, this certainly is their life, What we are hearing while fantastically beautiful music, is very much a prayer, and that feeling, that tone of authenticity is maintained in the recording well.

Highly recommended!"