Biscantorat – The Sound of The Spirit from Glenstal Abbey

Biscantorat was recorded in the Autumn of 2003 in the Benedictine Monastry at Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick, Ireland. Joining the community of monks in this unique recording are Marie-Bernadette O'Connor and Noirin Ni Riain.

Biscantorat is coined from an ancient proverb, that to sing is to pray twice - qui cantat, bis orat.

Here you experience sounds, voices, Latin chants, Irish songs, English Hymns, tracing the course of the liturgical year from Advent through Pentecost. Voices singing alone, voices singing together, voices in harmony.

Liosta Traiceanna / Tracklisting –

1. Enter Their Courts With Songs Of Praise
2. The Coventry Carol
3. Veni, Veni, Emmanuel!
4. The Darkest Midnight
5. Gloria In Excelsis Deo - More Ambrosiano
6. Christmas Day Is Come
7. Puer Natus In Bethlehem
8. Three Sonnets
9. Salve Regina
10. Regina Cæli
11. Alleluia - O Virga Mediatrix
12. The Seven Rejoices Of Mary
13. Nil Desperandum
14. The Beatitudes
15. Victimae Paschali Laudes
16. Kyrie Eleison
17. Pater Noster
18. Viri Galilæi
19. Jerusalem The Golden
20. The Holy Spirit Is The Air We Breathe
21. Spiritus Sanctus