Yet that's what happened to the monks of Stift Heiligenkreuz, a 12th-century Cistercian monastery near Vienna, whose CD of Gregorian chants has become a runaway hit. After its European release in ...

(RNS) If you loved the music of the Benedictine monks of Norcia in Italy -- and ... s classical chart with their traditional Gregorian chant CDs. Now, just in time for Lent, fans in the U.S ...

Every day, these monks sing the entire liturgy during mass in both Latin and English in Gregorian chant. It’s secondary to them, as natural as breathing in air. The monks face one another and ...

Try praying. That's how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has stormed pop music charts worldwide. The debut CD, Chant ...

The monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey in Austria sing ancient Gregorian chants in their 12th-century church — and then post them to YouTube. Their technological savvy landed them a record deal ...

Chant was an album of Gregorian chants recorded decades earlier by Spain’s Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo de Silos. The record was a fairly straightforward compilation of gentle, soothing ...

The monks’ U.S. label is Angel Records (would ... the group e-le-i-son released an album of Gregorian chant rock, “Kyrie,” last year. In the popular project “Deep Forest,” French and ...

Try praying. That’s how the monks of Heiligenkreuz Abbey found fame. Their compilation of Gregorian chants, a form of sung prayer, has stormed pop music charts worldwide. The debut CD ...

Mention “musical monks” to most people, and what they usually think of are Benedictine Friars singing Gregorian chants. But Catholicism isn’t the only faith with a monastic music tradition ...

On a return visit to Solesmes, the monks faced frosty accusations that they had sold out the Gregorian chant. Senegalese traditionalists were equally skeptical, with several averring that a kora ...

Other record companies also have tried to benefit from monk fever by releasing their own gregorian chant albums. In addition, Minnesota’s Quality Video has released a video featuring Gregorian ...

The latest sensation on the world's pop charts is 800-years-old. Gregorian chants performed by the Cistercian monks of Austria's Heiligenkreuz Abbey. (Soundbite of Gregorian Chants) SEABROOK ...