To celebrate this week’s historic state visit from Pope Benedict XVI, the Sunday Telegraph invites readers to download a special recording of soothing Gregorian chant from The Nuns of Avignon. 10 ...

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SOLESMES, France, June 10 (UPI) -- The tiny village abutting the river Sarthe boasts a single homestyle restaurant, several sleepy stone farmhouses and a tangle of apple-tree-studded country lanes ...

A new Gregorian chant CD by a group of Benedictine monks in Norcia, Italy, debuted at No. 1 on Billboard's classical music chart last week. The album, "Benedicta," was also the top overall seller at ...

The breakthrough for religious music into the mainstream happened when the monks of the Monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos in Spain released an album of Gregorian Chant. Since then it has become ...

In his letter to Cardinal Joseph Höffner for the Seventh International Congress of Sacred Music, John Paul II praised the unifying power of Gregorian chant within Catholic liturgy because of its ...

Existing for over a thousand years and still practised today, Gregorian chant is one of the most sophisticated forms of sacred music. It is not only the chant of the Church, but also the chant of the ...

Rachael Kohn: What you're hearing is Gregorian Chant. But it seems Pope Gregory the 1st, known as The Great, had little if anything to do with it. Hello, this is The Ark, and I'm Rachael Kohn. The ...

To celebrate this week’s historic state visit from Pope Benedict XVI, the Sunday Telegraph invites readers to download a special recording of soothing Gregorian chant from The Nuns of Avignon. 10 ...