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…
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…
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…
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…
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...
