Monks of Pluscarden singing

Music at Pluscarden Abbey

Music plays a central role in the daily life of the monks at Pluscarden Abbey.

All of the services at Pluscarden Abbey are sung in Latin using Gregorian Chant. Our community of monks have been recorded and broadcast by the BBC on several occasions, and we continue this history of making our own recordings.

Our recordings are released by Ffin Records and be purchased on CD from our shop, or digitally on iTunes, Amazon digital or direct from Ffin Records. 

 

Music news & articles

Pluscarden news & events
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Music Reviews for Season of Advent and Pax Aeterna with Tom Donald Piano

Some reviews have been received of our recently published music: "The Season of Advent" and "Pax Aeterna" with Tom Donald piano.

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Two New CDs

The Season of Advent - Gregorian Chant from the monks of Pluscarden Abbey and

The Benedictine Monks of Pluscarden Abbey - PAXATERNA - Tom Donald

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Towards a new Pluscarden Chant CD

The Pluscarden Schola has been recording again recently. We were fortunate to have in late July this year a visit by Dr. Giedrius Gapsys, who is a renowned scholar of Gregorian Chant, and a good friend of our community…

Christopher Francis reviews Tempus per annum CD

The remarkable variety of the chants on this disc is far from ordinary. The interpretation is thoughtful, and is based on a real understanding of the chant. As the excellently written booklet says, ‘close attention…

Dame Margaret Truran reviews Tempus per annum CD

This is a major CD, presenting twenty-nine chants intrinsic to the annual liturgical cycle that have not often been recorded. The singing, united, flowing and deeply musical, does them full justice. The text of each, with translation…

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Tempus per annum: new music recording released

The monks of Pluscarden present a new album: Tempus per annum. The album explores music used in ‘Ordinary Time’ - that is, all the weeks that fall outside the Seasons of Advent…

BBC Radio 3: Slow Radio - Meditations from a Monastery: Meditation
Slow radio on BBC Radio 3

This week the BBC Radio 3 Slow Radio series Meditations from a Monastery features recordings from Pluscarden Abbey, alongside other monastic communities. It accompanies the BBC Four television...

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New music releases on Ffin Records

Our recordings of Gregorian chant made between 1997 and 2012 have been remastered by Ffin Records, a specialist record label based in Cardiff...

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BBC Four film about Pluscarden

BBC4 television will broadcast a one hour film about Pluscarden Abbey on Wednesday 25 October at 9.00 p.m. The title is: "Retreat - Meditations from a Monastery."
Concert to support Pluscarden Abbey Pilgrimage Appeal

As part of the Pluscarden 1230 Pilgrimage fundraising programme for the South Range Project, a concert is to be held in St Mary’s Cathedral, Aberdeen on Wednesday 12th April 2017, starting at 19:30...