Benedictine nuns release Gregorian chants to help ease coronavirus isolation
(The Guardian France)

French order opens abbey doors to allow what could be the largest recording project everCoronavirus - latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageA monastery of Benedictine nuns living in seclusion in southern France has opened its doors to allow recordings of its Gregorian chants to be made available to the outside world.In what is believed to be the largest recording project ever conducted, the US musician John Anderson followed the 45-strong order for three years. He installed microphones in the abbey church of Notre-Dame de Fidélité de Jouques near Aix-en-Provence in southern France and captured the nuns singing their eight daily `offices`. The result is thousands of chants, the entire Gregorian repertoire, about 7,000 hours long. Continue reading...