Chant for Peace, Music CD, # 88984

Following up their internationally acclaimed best-selling album, Chant: Music for the Soul, the Cistercian Monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz presents this unique new recording that combines their Gregorian chant with ancient Jewish Hasidic hymns sung by the famous Austrian singer Timna Brauer, who is accompanied a chamber orchestra with musicians playing cello, guitar, harpsichord and percussion.

The secret to the success of their collaboration is that they are, literally, singing from the same hymn sheet. The Jewish Hasidic music comes from Old Testament psalms, just like the Gregorian chants. The monks and Timna were motivated to join these ancient sacred music traditions to show the common bonds between Catholicism and Judaism, and to promote the cause for peace.  It offers a very  generous list of 24 sacred hymns, recorded in the ancient Cistercian monastery chapel.

1. Ani Tzame

2. INTROITUS: Da pacem, Domine

3. ALLELUIA: Lauda, Ierusalem

4. OFFERTORIUM: Laudate Dominum

5. COMMUNIO: Pacem relinquo vobis

6. Libavtini Salomos Hohelied · Song of Solomon, 4:9-11

7. Ana Pana Dodech Salomos Hohelied, 6:1-2

8. Kyrie, fons bonitatis

9. El Ginat Egos Salomos Hohelied, 6:11 & 7:12

10. INTROITUS: Dilexisti iustitiam

11. ALLELUIA: Diffusa est gratia

12. OFFERTORIUM: Filiae regum

13. COMMUNIO: Quinque prudentes virgines

14. Ani Ma Amin

15. Halleluia

16. Canticum Alleluia. Salus, et gloria

17. Hymnus Urbs Ierusalem

18. Sar Hamemune From the Diwan, a sacred poetry book from the old Jewish Yemen

19. Im Nin Alu Diwan

20. Canticum Benedictus

21. Tzur Manoti

22. Dror Yikra

23. Te Lucis Ante Terminum

24. Nunc Dimittis