Artist	Song
The Hilliard Ensemble	Fine Amour, Qui Me Vint Navrer, M3
from Guillaume de Machaut: Motets (2004)
Choir Of King's College, Cambridge & Stephen Cleobury	Kyrie: Omnipotens Pater (Mode Viii)
from Gregorian Chant (2005)
Sequentia	O Quam Mirabilis Est (Antiphona)
from Hildegard Von Bingen: Spiritual Songs (1989)
Anonymous 4	Che chos'è quest'amor, ballata for 3 voices, S. 48
from The Second Circle: Love Songs of Francesco Landini (2001)
Charles Brett, David Munrow, James Bowman & The Early Music Consort Of London	Music of the Gothic Era - Ars nova: Impudenter circumivi
from Music of the Gothic Era (2002)
Charles Pott, Choristers Of Westminster Cathedral, James O'Donnell, Julian Clarkson, Michael McCarthy, Orlando Consort, Robert Harre-Jones & Stephen Charlesworth	Magnus Liber: Cristus Resurgens - Dicant Nunc - à 3 (Processional Antiphon)
from Leonin & Perotin: The School of Notre Dame (2004)
Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos	Homo quidam - Responsorio, modo iv
from Requiem Aeternam: Gregorian Chants (2005)
Andrew Kirkman & The Binchois Consort	Missa Spiritus almus: III. Credo
from Busnois: Missa l'homme armé - Domarto: Missa Spiritus almus (2002)
Paul Hillier & The Hilliard Ensemble	In Te Domine Speravi, Per Trovar Pietà
from Desprez: Motets and Chansons (2005)
James Bowman, Christopher Hogwood, Trevor Jones, David Munrow & Nigel North	De tous beins plaine (Rondeau): I. three-Pt. chanson
from The Art of the Netherlands (2010)
Andrew Kirkman & The Binchois Consort	Missa l'homme armé: IV. Sanctus
from Busnois: Missa l'homme armé - Domarto: Missa Spiritus almus (2002)
Orlando Consort	Descendi In Ortum Meum
from Dunstaple: Musician to the Plantagenets (1996)
Peter Phillips & The Tallis Scholars	Absterge Domine
from Thomas Tallis: Lamentations of Jeremiah (1992)
Claritas	Languisco e Moro! (Book 3, No. 3)
from Gesualdo: I tormenti d'amore, Anthology of Madrigals (1999)
Ensemble Camerata Nova	I' Priego Amor
from Landini - Ballate (2000)

Comment:

The roots of most Western classical music can be found in the medieval chant, which flourished in the 9th century, an era when Catholic Mass music was standardized into the Gregorian chant. For most of us, the chant lives on as the refined soundtrack to Christmas, or perfect meditation music. Discover the genre's masterworks here.

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