The Monks of Norcia team up with 11-time Grammy Award-winning producer Christopher Alder and Grammy Award-winning engineer Jonathan Stokes to release BENEDICTA: Marian Chant from Norcia, an album of stunning Gregorian chant that transports the listener to the Monks’ idyllic monastery in Italy. Their debut major label recording, BENEDICTA, consists of 33 tracks of Marian chant, including the well known “Regina Caeli” and “Ave Regina Caelorum” as well as original and previously unreleased songs.  BENEDICTA consists of songs dedicated to the life of Mary, Our Lady, including previously unrecorded chant versions of responsories and an original piece composed by the monks, “Nos Qui Christi Iugum,”(“We Who Have Taken Up Christ’s Yoke”). Some pieces on the album are sung by the entire group, some by smaller ensembles of monks and others by soloists, lending a vast range of sound and color to BENEDICTA. 

Track List:

1. Bells from the Basilica
2. Sequence Ave Maria...virgo serena
3. Capitulum Dominus possedit me
4. Responsory Nihil Inquinatum
5. Antiphon Ait Dominus
6. Responsory Beatissimae
7. Antiphon Regali ex progenie
8. Responsory Solem justitiae
9. Capitulum Ecce virgo concipiet
10. Responsory Gaude Maria
11. Antiphon Gabriel Angelus
12. Responsory Sancta et immaculata
13. Antiphon Rubum quem viderat
14. Antiphon Alma Redemptoris Mater
15. Antiphon Tuam ipsius animam
16. Capitulum Cui comparabo te?
17. Responsory Vadis Propitiator
18. Antiphon Ave Regina Caelorum
19. Antiphon Laetare Virgo Mater
20. Antiphon Regina Caeli
21. Hymn Concordi laetitia
22. Capitulum Benedixit te
23. Responsory Vidi speciosam
24. Antiphon Virgo Prudentissima
25. Responsory Virgo parens Christi
26. Antiphon Sub tuum praesidium
27. Capitulum Ab initio
28. Responsory Ave Maria
29. Hymn O gloriosa Domina
30. Hymn Ave maris stella
31. Antiphon Nos qui Christi iugum
32. Antiphon Salve Regina
33. Benedicta