Sacred Music
"Sacred music and liturgical chant have the task of giving us a sense of the glory of God, of his beauty, of his holiness which wraps us in a 'luminous cloud'".
Pope Francis, addressing the 2017 International Conferfence on Sacred Music.
Below are links to some of the music we love at New Pilgrim Path. We will be adding to this page week by week.
Pope Francis, addressing the 2017 International Conferfence on Sacred Music.
Below are links to some of the music we love at New Pilgrim Path. We will be adding to this page week by week.
The stirring Benedictus from Karl Jenkins' The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace is performed here by one of Scotland's foremost choral groups, the Glasgow Phoenix Choir.
The Taizé community in France is an ecunemical monastic order and one of the world's most imprtant pilgrimage sites, especially for youth. It is famed for its distinctive meditative prayer chants. Listen here.
Music for contemplation! The choir of New College Oxford sing some of the great sacred masterpieces.
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Mendelssohn's Elijah brings to life some of the most dramatic moments in the Old Testament.It is an extraordinary and uplifting musical experience. See here for the libretto.
Superb recording of Allegri's haunting Miserere, a setting of the great penitential psalm, Psalm 51, composed in the 1630s. 
"The piece by Bach that I love so much is the 'Erbarme Dich,' the tears of Peter in the St. Matthew Passion. Sublime." Pope Francis. 
Listen here to some of the unique and glorious music of the 12th century St Hildegard of Bingen - abbess, writer, composer, philosopher, Christian mystic, visionary, and polymath. For Hildegard, music rises almost to the level of a sacrament, channeling the perfection of divine grace from the heavenly choirs down to us, where we reflect the symphony in the blessed joy of song.
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