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The group of monks from an ancient Austrian tsistertsian c monastery who entered into a contract with record labels and label Universal Music will release a CD of Gregorian horalom, reported Agency France Presse.

Gregorian chants - the traditional liturgical singing monodiynoe Roman Catholic Church. Singing has been identified by name Gregorian I Gregory the Great (590-604 Pope in years) - it medieval tradition attributed authorship of most hymns Roman liturgy. In ancient Gregorian singing synthesized intonation formula Eastern Mediterranean musical cultures, as well as elements of the Byzantine, gallikanskogo, amvrosianskogo singing, folklore and German Celtic tribes. Language basis Gregorian singing - Latin.

In 90 - years of the last century Gregorian chants occupied the first few lines pop charts, because it is widely used in its tracks group Enigma. In XXI century public interest in Gregorian chants once again grow through good sales of computer game Halo, the soundtrack to which used Gregorian melodies. Universal Music saw this as a new opportunity for a profit in February and published in several British publications religious advertising on the search for perpetrators Gregorian monody. On the advertising people have responded from all over the world: Universal Music received a letter inviting the cooperation of monks, scholars, church choirs, school choirs and even pop singers, who do cover versions of popular songs in the Gregorian style.

On that Universal Music is looking for artists Gregorian horalov, monks from the monastery told Austrian friend from London. Not particularly hoping for good luck, the monks have sent a letter to the company, which gave links to your site and the videos, paving on YouTube. As a result, the recording studio has found this group of monks singing the best of all present and signed their cooperation agreement.

Father Philip Neri-Gshanes noted that the major role that the Universal Music prefer monks from a monastery near Vienna, to play Pope Benedict XVI. Last September, the head of the Roman Catholic Church visited the monastery and was delighted local singing monks. Incidentally, this monastery was built in the Holy Leopold in 1133 and is the second oldest tsistertsian c kim monastery in the world.

The works in the recording studio Universal Music monks will begin in April, and drive them to see the light pieces, most likely this summer. The album will be released under the label Universal Classics and Jazz. According to Father Philip Neri-Gshanesa, monks have not decided how they arrange for its disposal profits from the CD recording.