Abbaye de Solesmes

50 years of recordings

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Solesmes 1010-2010
Le millénaire

Le chant mystérieux du silence 1 DVD documentaire de 52 mn + bonus, français-anglais
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Sundays throughout the year (I-III) The first three Sundays in the liturgical year.
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Les Éditions musicales de Solesmes is proud to present the public with a truly rich selection of pieces which represent the choral chant of the monks of the Abbey of Solesmes over a period of some 50 years, from the first long-playing records to today's compact discs. The entire collection has been carefully digitalized.
There are two distinct collections:

The first offers every recording of Dom Joseph Gajard directing the choir of the monks of Solesmes spanning a period of almost twenty years, (1952 - 1970), and his successor, Dom Jean Claire directing between 1972 and 1978.

Those recording were done in mono up until 1958; stereo was used for the first time in our recordings the next year with the album « Good Friday - Passion ».

The second, more recent collection gathers the remaining recordings over almost 25 years of Dom Jean Claire (1978 - 1996) and several recordings by his successor, Dom Richard Gagné. There is also a recording of archival interest, the very first by the Solesmes monks, done in 1930 with the Société Gramophone.