Music for Easter from the Vatican (All Free; in MP3 format)

The Vatican ^ | April 3, 2009

[Stoat]

 

Here are some links to go to if you would like to download some wonderful music for Easter:

Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music - The Musical Offering in MP3

The download links at the page above look like this:

Introitus: Resurrexi (Graduale Romanum)

Hover your mouse cursor over the underlined / italicized text and right-click, then select 'save target as' from the right-click menu and choose your preferred download location.

Hymns for the Celebrations of the Liturgical Year, Pontifical Musical Chorus of the Sistine Chapel

The download links at this page are different, they look like this:

IO SONO RISORTO 

For these links you need to hover your mouse cursor over the 'note' icon      and right-click, then follow the same procedure that you did for the links at the page above.

[Stoat]

Some related Free Republic threads from previous years:

2005

Music for Easter from the Vatican

2007

Music for Easter from the Vatican (in MP3 format, all are free)

2008

Music for Easter from The Vatican - All free, in MP3 format

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Technical Help with MP3's and downloading

If you are having difficulty with downloading or playing the music on your computer, PLEASE feel free to ask for help!  I have not forgotten what it was like when I was new to computers and will treat all questions with courtesy and answer as best I can.  If I don't know the answer I'm sure that someone else here will....computer questions aren't 'dumb'....asking them is only an indication that you're not as shy as the fifty other people who are worrying over the same question!  They will also appreciate your asking it  :-)

[Stoat]

 

Benedictus XVI
Joseph Ratzinger

[sitetest]

Dear Stoat,

Thanks for the ping!

Classical Music Ping List ping!

If you want on or off this list, let me know via FR e-mail.

Thanks,

sitetest

[GOP Poet]

Excellent. Thank you.

[Skooz]

Thanks

[philly-d-kidder]

Thank you very much!!

[JoeProBono]

Splendid!

[Stoat]

You're quite welcome and thank you all for your kind and gracious words :-) I'm delighted that you've found it to be worthwhile.

Some may wonder why I post these threads so early before Holy days, and there are several reasons:

• If people have difficulties or technical questions then this 'should' provide enough time to get things sorted out for them so that they can still enjoy the music on Easter.
• Sometimes people like to burn custom CD's of this music and either mail it to distant friends or relatives or they produce multiple copies and distribute them to nursing homes and other places where people's lives might be made better by some beautiful music.  It takes time to:

                                                                                                                                    A. Download the music

                                                                                                                                    B. Burn the CD (s)

                                                                                                                                    C. Make nice covers for the CD's

                                                                                                                                    D. Mail or distribute them and have them arrive before Easter.

• And some of us (myself included) don't have any problem at all with listening to this great music for a week or more before Easter!  :-)

[Northern Yankee]

Thought you’d like this.

[Miss Marple]

Thanks, Northern Yankee! I think I can burn CD's on my computer. I am going to ask my son how to do this. I hadn't thought about it before, but there is a lot of music on the internet that is free and is totally out of the realm of what is played on radio.

I believe Stoat published a similar thread around Christmas, and the music was quite beautiful.

[Northern Yankee]

My pleaure!

Let me know how it goes.

Holy Week is almost upon us. I have really enjoyed this Lent.

[Miss Marple]

I have found this to be a very helpful Lent. I gave up alcohol (BIG sacrifice for me, the martini drinker) and have managed to pray the Rosary every single evening.

I also am almost done with Pope Benedict's Jesus of Nazareth which I highly recommend. It is not a book to be rushed as it has quite a few scholarly passages, but I learned several new things about The Lord's Prayer, the apostles, and the differences between the Gospels, as well as a lot of new things about Jesus. It is one of those rare books I will re-read from time to time.

[fightinJAG]

Thanks! I’m going to check this out.

[philly-d-kidder]

Thanks Again

[curmudgeonII]

Thank you.