Sunday, August 26, 2007

Mozart - Ave verum corpus - Vienna boys choir


This is just the vocal score, it doesn't have any silences or rests

Mozart's final completed sacred work was written on 17 June 1791, for the feast of Corpus Christi at the request of Anton Stoll, choirmaster at Baden where Mozart was visiting with his wife Constanze.

Sunday, August 19, 2007

Therese of Lisieux Original Movie Soundtrack


Sister Marie Therese Sokol combines her talents and experience as composer and professional cellist with her life in a Carmelite monastery. After receiving a degree in Music Performance from Indiana University and performing with the Omaha, Winnipeg and Vancouver Symphonies, she decided to leave it all behind to become a cloistered nun. "Little did I know when I entered the monastery, what opportunities for musical composition and performance would present themselves. THERESE has been a labor of love, and the score is an integral part of this beautiful film."

Sunday, August 12, 2007

Monastery of Christ in the Desert


Christ in the Desert is a monastery deep in the high sierras in north west New Mexico of Benedictine monks. This video shows some areas of the monastery.

Monday, August 6, 2007

Traditional Latin Low Mass - Transfiguration


Traditional Latin (Tridentine) Low Mass offered on the Feast of the Transfiguration

Saturday, August 4, 2007

Sunday, July 29, 2007

Manastirea Bârsana, Maramures, România


Bârsana is one of the famous villages of Maramures historical region in Romania. Maramures is the best preserved and most original ethnographical region in Europe.

Characteristic for Maramures are the ancestral songs and costumes and the wood architecture, here a real civilisation in wood existing.

În Bârsana had existed an important Orthodox monastery between the 14th century and 1791.

The today monastery was refounded in 1993. The three wood churches are historical monuments dating from 17-18th century. One of them is the original church of the ancient monastery.

The new buildings of the monastery have been build by the local peasants in Maramures traditional architectural style. Everything is in wood.

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Pope John Paul II at Holy Martyrs Chicago 1979


Pope John Paul II at Holy Martyrs Chicago 1979