Sunday Matinee

This is the time of the year where a good portion of the human populace determines to celebrate their religious inner selves. To this mind, religion is a man made affair which at its best place offers individuals something within their minds where hope can be attached. I am not a religious man in the sense of requiring an external element to understand and live my personal spirituality. So come the holiday season, the music which fills the rooms of my manor house although religious contextually, is played for its supreme elegance to the ear. While Sacred Chant has enjoyed a resurgence within the last decade, pleasantly it has recently left the zone of trendy and returned to its eternal place among serious philes. One has to admit however, the resurgence created sufficient interest for more works to be recorded which can only be applauded.

Cistercian Chant: Late Middle Ages Clairveaux Abbey.

Ambrosian Chant: The church of Mediolanum (Milan).

Byzantine Chant: Medieval chant of the Divine Liturgy.

Gothic Chant: The early Organum period, Notre Dame.

Mozarabic Chant: Moorish North African.

Gregorian Chant: Medieval period France.