"It is with great joy that we present the Mount St. Mary's Seminary Vespers Schola's first CD recording of Sacred Music.  Quality Sacred Music has always enhanced one's prayer life and worship.  I pray that this recording will encourage you to meditate on the many glorious gifts that God bestows upon His people. Please enjoy this recording and remember the seminarians with your prayers and generosity as they prepare for the Holy Priesthood."

Msgr. Steven P. Rohlfs STD
Rector, Mount St. Mary's Seminary

News and Updates

Album now available in mp3 format directly from Amazon.com

Review of CD on the New Liturgical Movement Blog.

Story from the Frederick News & Post about the CD.

Ordering Information

Scroll below for sample tracks.

Press Release(.pdf link)

Track List

Campus bookstore will stock the CD from Dec. 16.

Features

• Favorites such as "Panis Angelicus" and Franz Biebl's "Ave Maria." 

• Classic Hymn "Immaculate Mary" with the verses specially composed for the Biecentennial celebrations of Mount St. Mary's (1808-2008).

• The only known recording of "Tu Es Sacerdos" by Italian composer Nicola Montani.  (Recent research seems to indicate that several other tracks have not been recorded before.)

• Solemn Vespers as prayed by the Mount Community every Sunday

Release date: December 15, 2008.

Physical copies of the Schola's CD are no longer available for purchase.  Right now there are no plans for a second edition of the CD.  However, the entire album is available for sale at Amazon.com for direct download in mp3 format.

Sample Tracks

Click on the links below to hear a short (~30s) sample:

"To You Do We Come Seeking Mercy."

"Ultima"

"O Sacrum Convivium"

"Panis Angelicus"

"Revelation Canticle" (from Solemn Vespers)

"Magnificat on Psalm Tone 8"

Proceeds from the sale of the CD will go towards the restoration of Immaculate Conception Chapel (above) and the restoration of the organ in St. Bernard's Chapel

THE VESPERS SCHOLA

Please pray for all the seminarians studying for the Holy Priesthood at Mount St. Mary's!

Please email the web-author for questions relating to the website.

Photo of Immaculate Conception Chapel ©2008, G. Shroff. All rights reserved, used with permission.

TRACK LIST

1. "Ave Maria" Franz Biebl
2. "O Sacrum Convivium" Roberto Remondi
3. "Panis Angelicus" Cesar Franck
4. "Ecce Sacerdos" Goller
5. "Tu es Sacerdos" Nicola Montani
6. "Hear, Lord" Peter Tschaikowsky
7. "Lord for Thy Tender Mercies Sake" Richard Farrant
8. "Psalm 62" Frederick Ziegler, Mr. Brian Baker, Tenor
9. "Te Joseph Celebrent" Oreste Ravanello
10. "Ave Maris Stella" Chant Mode I, Gregorian Chant Schola
11. "Adagio Cantabile" Giuseppe Tartini, Frederick Ziegler, Organist
12. "Magnificat" on Psalm Tone 8
13. "Immaculate Mary" Mount St. Mary Text by Irene Powell and Paula Smaldone
14. "Solemn Regina Caeli" Chant Mode VI, Gregorian Chant Schola

Sunday Vespers II, Week Two in Ordinary Time

15. Procession: "O Glorioso Virginum"
16. Introductory: "God, Come to My Assistance"
17. Hymn: "At the Name of Jesus"
18. Psalm 110
19. Pslam 115
20. Revelation Canticle
21. Reading
22. Responsory
23. Magnificat
24. Intercessions
25. Our Father
26. Prayer
27. Dismissal
28. Salve Regina

29. "Ave Maria" Oresto Ravanello
30. "O Gladsome Light" Anon
31. Concerto on "Thaxted" Gustav Holst/Richard Proulx
32. "Haec Dies" Oreste Ravanello
33. "Ultima" Anon
34. "To You Do We Come Seeking Mercy" Anon
35. "Locus Iste" Anton Bruckner
36. "Ave Maria" Franz Schubert, Mr. Thomas Crowe, Baritone

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