Sacrum Convivium

The CD Sacrum convivium presents a vision of French music over two millennia: from Gregorian chant through Guillaume de Machaut's extraordinary Lai de Nostre Dame to the twentieth century of Maurice Duruflé, Francis Poulenc and Olivier Messiaen, all three of them influenced in some way by the spirituality and sensibility of Gregorian chant, which Messiaen himself described as "the greatest we possess in western music"