Gregarian chant last track on enigma album

#GREGARIAN CHANT LAST TRACK ON ENIGMA ALBUM PROFESSIONAL#

'Then National Public Radio started playing it - that's when sales started soaring,' Folger says.ДЇolger thinks these chant recordings appeal to everyone from people brought up in traditional religious disciplines to New Age devotees. Harmonia Mundi USA spokeswoman Sarah Folger says that the first Anonymous 4 CD had respectable sales through regular channels but really broke out when magazines like Rolling Stone and Mirabella reviewed it. Their two Harmonia Mundi France recordings (An English Ladymass and On Yoolis Night) each sold around 90,000 copies - probably the previous record for music of this type. One group that paved the way for the success of Chant is Anonymous 4, made up of four American women virtuosos.

#GREGARIAN CHANT LAST TRACK ON ENIGMA ALBUM PROFESSIONAL#

Other chant recordings in recent years have featured even more highly trained professional soloists. 'I yelled, 'Come here and translate this for me.' There sure aren't any liner notes.' 'I had a former monk in here buying it,' Holt of Borders says. Unlike the Sony release, Chant lacks any printed texts or translations. It juxtaposes some of the most beautiful and ornate pieces written for special occasions like Christmas and Pentecost with simple, folklike hymns such as Puer natus in Bethlehem.Д«ut Angel clearly isn't aiming its CD at people who care what each particular selection is about. (September 2020) Enigma generally produces worldbeat and new age songs. He recorded the first Enigma studio album, MCMXC a.D. (1996), which blended the Gregorian chants reminiscent of the first album with. Cretu had released several solo records, collaborated with various artists, and produced albums for his then-wife, German pop singer Sandra, before he conceived the idea of a new-age, worldbeat project. But the mix in Chant is more varied and attractive. Enigma is a German musical project founded in 1990 by Romanian-German musician and producer Michael Cretu. is the debut studio album by the German musical project Enigma, led by Romanian-German musician Michael Cretu.It was released in Europe by Virgin Records on 3 December 1990, and in the United States by Charisma Records on 12 February 1991. Their light, polished sound contrasts with the vivid, almost sandpaperlike vocal quality of the San Domingo de Silos monks.Д«oth the Angel and Sony Classical discs offer seemingly random works from the Gregorian repertoire. Sony Classical's new Gregorian Chant has comparably catchy graphics and uses digital recording techniques instead of Angel's ancient analog.Д«ut Konrad Ruhland's group on Sony Classical is a 'schola' - a group of professional singers specially trained in chant techniques. Some discs that other record companies have rushed onto the market to compete with Chant use other kinds of forces. 'That truly separates them from professional musicians.'

'The public is responding to the incredible performances of these particular monks at prayer,' Murphy says. But only a few monasteries worldwide still use chants as their usual liturgical music - San Domingo de Silos, for one.

Gregarian chant last track on enigma album