Description:

• Benedicta: Marian Chant from Norcia
• Artist: The Monks of Norcia
• Features music that will transport you to a timeless place of eternal beauty
• Makes a perfect background to the rosary

Inspiring, beautiful music of Chant at it's very best, by the beloved Benedictine Monks of Norcia, Italy. Benedicta: Marian Chant from Norciais a glorious recording of 33 tracks of Gregorian chant that transports the listener to the Monks idyllic monastery in Italy.

The stunning album includes favorite Marian antiphons such asRegina Caeli, Salve Regina, Ave MariaandAve Regina Caelorum, but also previously unrecorded chant versions of responsories, and a piece originally composed by the monks (Nos Qui Christi Iugum). Marian antiphons are a group of hymns in the Gregorian chant collection of the Catholic Church, sung in honor of the Virgin Mary

Some pieces are sung by the entire group, some by smaller ensembles of monks and others by soloists, imbuingBENEDICTAwith a vast range of sound and color. Recorded on location at the monastery in Norcia, Italy, the album was produced by 11-time Grammy Award-winning producer Christopher Alder and engineered by Grammy-Award winning engineer Jonathan Stokes.

The life of the monks has always been hours of study, industry, prayer, service - and song. Monastic chant echoed off the walls of theMonastero di San Benedetto di Norciafor more than800 yearsbefore Napoleonic laws suppressed this branch of the Benedictine order in 1810, causinga break in the continuity of music in Norcia for nearly 200 years. But when a Benedictine Community founded in 1998 by Father Cassian Folsom sought a monastery, the town of Norcia welcomed the monks back to the birthplace of St. Benedict,and themusicbegan again.

This is the story ofThe Monks of Norcia. Their alluring chant has been masterfully captured by11x Grammy Award winning producer Christopher Alder.De Montfort Musichas teamed with Universal Music Classics and Decca Classics to bring this transcendentdebutto you directly from within the monastery walls of Norcia.