This album was recorded in the autumn of 2003 in the Benedictine Monastery at Glenstal Abbey, Murroe, Co. Limerick, Ireland. Joining the community of monks in this unique recording are Marie-Bernadette O'Connor, John O'Donohue and Noirin Ni Riain.
Biscantorat is coined from an ancient proverb, qui cantat, bis orat (to sing is to pray twice).
Here you experience sounds, voices, Latin chants, Irish songs, English hymns, tracing the course of the liturgical year from Advent through Pentecost.
Tracks: Enter Their Courts With Songs Of Praise / The Coventry Carol / Veni, Veni, Emmanuel / The Darkest Midnight / Gloria In Excelsis Deo - More Ambrosiano / Christmas Day Is Come / Puer Natus In Bethlehem / Three Sonnets / Salve Regina / Regina Caeli / Alleluia - O Virga Mediatrix / The Seven Rejoices Of Mary / Nil Desperandum / The Beatitudes / Victimae Paschali Laudes / Kyrie Eleison / Pater Noster / Viri Galilaei / Jerusalem The Golden / The Holy Spirit In The Air We Breathe / Spiritus Sanctus.