Masters of Chant Chapter VI by Gregorian
Masters of Chant Chapter VI is the 2007 instalment in Gregorian's long-running series of chant covers. This time the choir reaches across pop, rock, and folk, from a Queen anthem to a Coldplay ballad. I came back to it for the way it finds the prayer hidden inside familiar songs.
Why listen?
The arrangements are stately and reverent, layered voices over gentle orchestration. The production is smooth and warm, made for quiet hours. Hearing a modern hit slowed to chant uncovers a longing the original kept moving past. There is a calm here that settles a busy mind. It is music for the end of a long day.
Favourite song: Who Wants to Live Forever
The Queen anthem, reborn as slow, aching chant. The choir lets the great question hang in the air without rushing to answer it.
The moment the full voices gather feels like a cathedral filling with sound, vast and echoing. It reminds me of stepping out of the wind into the shelter of old stone walls, the sudden hush a kind of mercy. The song was always about mortality and love, and sung this way it becomes almost a hymn.
Key takeaway
Masters of Chant Chapter VI is a calm, reverent reworking of songs you thought you knew. Best heard whole and unhurried.
Tracklist
- Guide Me God
- Miracle of Love
- Dreams
- The Circle
- Mad World
- Mercy Street
- Believe in Me
- One of Us
- Who Wants to Live Forever
- Crying in the Rain
- Greensleeves
- Jóga
- The Time Has Come
- Fix You
Details
| Item | Value |
|---|---|
| Artist | Gregorian |
| Release year | 2007 |
| Length | 71 min |
| Tracks | 14 |
| Label | Edel |
| Standout moment | Who Wants to Live Forever |
Listen on
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