This chant album is from an ancient Cistercian monastery (1133) in Vienna, Austria,in the village of Heiligenkreuz in the southern part of the Vienna woods, c. 13 km north-west of Baden in Lower Austria. It is the oldest continuously occupied Cistercian monastery in the world, which happens to be a favorite abbey of Pope Benedict XVI.
The album has become an international sensation, and it presents the deep spiritual beauty of the monks' chants that are very peaceful, poignant, and connects heaven and earth. An abbey flourishing with young vocations, their chant music has a wide appeal that opens our hearts to God in meditation and prayer as we listen to their selections from Compline, Requiem, Mass hymns and more.
Includes In Paradisum, Requiem Aeternam, Kyrie, Sanctus, Lux Aeterna, Salve Regina, Veni Creator Spiritus, various Psalms, and much more. 29 hymns in total, with collectors booklet.
CD
Track
Description
Time
Chant: Music for the Soul
1
Antiphon "In Paradisum" et Psalmus 121
4:28
The Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz
2
Response Subvenite
2:28
3
Response Libera Me
4:26
4
Stift Heligenkreuz Bells
1:36
5
Introitus Requiem aeternam
2:00
6
Kyrie
1:38
7
Graduale Requiem aeternam
2:40
8
Tractus Absolve Domine
2:10
9
Offertorium Domine Jesu Christe
3:40
10
Sanctus
0:46
11
Pie Jesu Domine
0:50
12
Agnus Dei
0:44
13
Communio Lux aeterna
1:08
14
Deus in adiutorium
0:49
15
Hymn Te lucis ante terminum
1:24
16
Psalm 4
2:33
17
Psalm 90 (91)
3:46
18
Psalm 133
1:12
19
Lectio brevis
0:27
20
Responsorium breve
0:40
21
Canticum Simeonis "Nunc dimittis"
2:17
22
Ad Completorium: Kyrie
0:12
23
As Completorium: Oratio conclusive
0:47
24
Salve Regina
2:47
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