HEILIGENKREUZ, Austria -- Working to reach No. 1 on the charts? Try praying. That's how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has ...

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

When Father Jerome Molokie learned that his community’s newly released CD “Christmas at St. Michael’s Abbey: Chants for the Three Masses of Christmas” was on its second run of being duplicated, he ...

On Continuum this week will be a special program devoted Gregorian Chant, from a ten-CD set of the History of Music. Specifically, this volume covers musical Europe in the era of Gregorian unification ...

For centuries, Gregorian chants — unaccompanied singing traditionally done by monks and other male clerics in the early days of the Catholic Church — were written with “nuemes,” inflective notations ...

(RNS) A new Gregorian chant CD, "Benedicta," debuted at No. 1 on Billboard’s classical music chart last week (June 10). Why does chant have such a secular appeal? (RNS) A new Gregorian chant CD by a ...

The monks — from the Cistercian monastery of Heiligenkreuz (The Holy Cross) in the Vienna woods — were notified by a friend in London that Universal was on the look-out for a so-called Choralschola, a ...

For centuries, Gregorian chants — unaccompanied singing traditionally done by monks and other male clerics in the early days of the Catholic Church — were written with “nuemes,” inflective notations ...

Talk about your golden oldies: The surprise hit on the pop charts is a CD reissue of music that is 1,500 years old. On March 15, Angel Records released an album of Gregorian chants performed by monks ...

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 (June 10). The album, “Benedicta,” was also the top overall ...