The Chants of Angels

Name: The Chants of Angels
Brand: Gloriae Dei Cantores Schola
SKU: 9781557259257
Price: 18.99 USD
Availability: InStock

Gregorian Chant

By (artist) The Gloriae Dei Cantores Schola and Gloriae Dei Cantores

$18.99

ISBN: 9781557259257
Trim size: 0 x 0 inches
Weight: 3 ounces.
Publication Date: 10 May 2011
Product ID: C51
Format: CD-Audio

"Gloriae Dei Cantores helps me to pray when the words just won't come. Their glorious chants, songs and melodies are a regular part of my spiritual life." --Fr. James Martin, SJ

Celebrating these heavenly guardians and guides, The Chants of Angels is relaxing, peaceful, uplifting. Using the ancient melodies and texts of the early church, each Gregorian chant depicts a new aspect or story of the angels. From our most intimate plea to the angels for aid, to the great announcement made by the Archangel Gabriel, The Chants of Angels surrounds the listener with these songs of prayer and comfort. Great for driving, background music, or quiet meditation.

“Be transported to a timeless place of eternal beauty.” — Kansas City Star

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“I’ve been writing about the angels for many years. When I listen to The Chants of Angels, I feel as if I’m that much closer to my heavenly subject matter. This music is glorious.” — Mike Aquilina, author, Angels of God and A Year with the Angels

“Not even the most seasoned monastic group delivers it better than the Gloriæ Dei Cantores Schola.” —American Record Guide

“While I have always approved the schola's chant recordings, [this] disc attains a new height of excellence, the best chant singing of any American choir.”
—Fanfare

"I am so happy that the Cantores have embraced audiophile surround sound as it adds a whole new dimension to their already generally superb recorded legacy. . . . The voices on this recording infiltrate the room, flooding it with an inescapable beauty that envelops the ears and transports the senses. . . . a living and vibrant faith, and one hears this in every syllable of the Cantores' singing. . . .The full texts and translations, along with little blurbs to guide us along the journey, are tasteful in the extreme and colorfully done in a premium presentation effort."
—Steven Ritter, Audiophile Audition

Author Bio

Gloriæ Dei Cantores Schola is dedicated to the singing and study of Gregorian chant. Its expertise and experience come from daily chanting of the Liturgy of the Hours as well as the Ordinary and Proper of the Mass at the Church of the Transfiguration in Orleans, MA. The Schola also conducts chant workshops and performs in concert with Gloriæ Dei Cantores. Years of study with Dr. Mary Berry, CBE, founder of the Schola Gregoriana in Cambridge, England, and the monks of St. Peter’s Abbey in Solesmes, France, also contribute to the Schola’s passion for Gregorian chant as a vibrant and living form of sung prayer.

Gloriæ Dei Cantores Schola has been critically acclaimed in both Europe and the United States for its proper regard for rhythmic flexibility and its sensitivity to both musical and textural phrase.