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Bonum est was a radio-program on Sacred Chant by Geert Maessen in collaboration with

Oliver Gerlach¹, Ferhat Arslan² and Magdalena Kuhn³, broadcasted by Concertzender.

All programs can be streamed 'on demand' on the internet.

The links below give access to info & streams:

... and a short explanation:

!!! When an English link below does not work properly, please try the link at the same number on the Dutch page: dutch You will only miss the English translation there !!!

151³ Psalm 151 and the Coptic liturgy (March 20, 2016)

... several ensembles and chants from the Coptic Holy Week

150¹ Ensemble Ison (February 21, 2016)

... Oliver Gerlach's ensemble for improvised medieval music

149¹ A Zikr from the Cerrahî Sufis (January 17, 2016)

... recording of the oldest sufi order still in existence in Istanbul

148 The Benedictine Monks of Norcia (December 20, 2015)

... Marian chants from Saint Benedicts birthplace in Nursia

147 The Mystery of Gregorian Chant: a Course (November 15, 2015)

... the monks of Silos teach Gregorian (booklet) and their own Mozarabic Chant

146 The Winchester Troper (September 20, 2015)

... Discantus sings the earliest European polyphony and new compositions

145 From Phanar to Saray (July 19, 2015)

... Kudsi Erguner: esthetics from Byzantium and the Ottoman Empire

144 Cantate & Jubilate and Ferenc Sapszon (June 21, 2015)

... in 2015 for the sixth time at the Gregorian Chant Festival in Watou (Belgium)

143 Música Arabigo Andaluza (711-1492) (May 17, 2015)

... from Córdoba to Bagdad, familiar with Mozarabic & Gregorian chant

142 Hermannus Contractus (1013-1054) (April 19, 2015)

... compositions of the eleventh-century Stephen Hawking

141 Psalms from Algeria (March 15, 2015)

... beyond a New Rome Constantine also founded a New Jerusalem

140¹ Carnaval in Lucania and Calabria (February 15, 2015)

... great filmmusic with a trance-inducing Tarantella

139 Vespers for Saint Charlemagne (January 18, 2015)

... since antipope Pascal III in 1165 celebrated on January 28

138 Byzantium before the fall of Constantinopel (December 18, 2014)

... the Play of the Furnace and the Vespers of St Catherine

137^1,2 Traditional music from Kurdistan (November 20, 2014)

... life and suffering of a people as source for their religious music

136 Requiem - Ars Nova Copenhagen (October 30, 2014)

... Samhain & All Souls, Old & New, Ockeghem & Sørensen

135 The book of Revelation according to the Tiburtina Ensemble (September 25, 2014)

... chant from the Huelgas Codex with modern improvised music

134 The Divine Liturgy of St. John Chrysostom (August 28, 2014)

... Cappella Romana directed by Alexander Lingas sings Peter Michaelides

133 Chant & Flamenco (July 31, 2014)

... a possible link in the musical pre-history of Southern Spain

132 Schola Gregoriana Monacensis: the ordinary Sundays of the year (May 22, 2014)

... since the nineties the new chant standard for many

131 Easter in St Martins Abbey of Beuron (April 24, 2014)

... in the fifties and sixties the chant standard for many

After a small year of absence, broadcasts each third (or last) Sunday (or Thursday)

130 Seikilos - Reading Music Notation (July 4, 2013)

... from the earliest completely preserved composition to Turkmenistan

129 Barefoot from Rome to Prague (June 27, 2013)

... through Old-European traditions in disuse to Bohemia

128¹ Arbëreshë - liturgy and paraliturgy from Lucania and Calabria (June 20, 2013)

... old and new fieldrecordings from Magna Graecia

127¹ Otec Stiliyan and the Divine Liturgy of John Chrysostom (June 13, 2013)

... Bačkovo monastery, with bleating sheep and work in the garden

126¹ Samuel Benaroya and the Maftitrim van Edirne (June 6, 2013)

... seven Ottoman makams in Turkish-Jewish style

125¹ Mevlevi Sema - the ceremony of the whirling dervishes (May 30, 2013)

... makan sabâ; Tamburi Büyük Osman Bey & Hammamizade İsmail Dede Efendi

124 Pentecost with Fulvio Rampi and I Cantori Gregoriani (May 23, 2013)

... restored and semiologically performed chant in 1995

123 Orthodox chant from Valaam (May 16, 2013)

... to celebrate 20 years of monastic life after communism

122¹ Saint Nicholas and the processions of Bari (May 9, 2013)

... fieldrecordings (and more) from Saint Nicholas at the Adriatic (May 9)

121 Voices - the sisters from Avignon (May 2, 2013)

... Decca's first choice from 70 convents

120 Taizé - Ô toi l'au-delà de tout (April 25, 2013)

... songs form the international ecumenical monastic order

119 The Great Responsories of the Night-Office (April 11, 2013)

... one of the very few places where all of these are still sung

118 Easter - Misa Mozárabe (April 4, 2013)

... a nearly complete Mass from the Mozarabic rite

117 Spanish, Hungarian and other lamentations for Holy Week (March 28, 2013)

... different melodies and texts

116¹ Eastern Liturgies 20 - Grecìa Salentina - I passiùna tu Cristù (March 21, 2013)

... the kalimera-tradition of Lazarus-Saturday

115 Dobszay & Eben - Gloria laus et honor tibi sit (March 14. 2013)

... chant for Palm Sunday and Holy Week

114 Poisblaud - Gregorian chant for Passiontide (March 7, 2013)

... the art of the cantor in the first millennium

113 Mozarabic Chant from Santo Domingo de Silos (February 28, 2013)

... Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros & Germán Prado

112 Organum - Lux perpetua / Requiem (February 21, 2013)

... the funeral mass from the Occo Codex

111 Schola Gregoriana Monacensis - Three Sundays in Lent (February 14, 2013)

... the eight CD of these promotors of the Graduale Novum

110^1,2 Eastern Liturgies 19 - Sufi music of the Bektashi Order (February 7, 2013)

... in music and dance searching for Divine Love, the One

109 Amarcord, Chant from Leipzig, ca 1300 (January 31, 2013)

... masses for Dedication of a Church and the Apostle Thomas

108 Mysterium Crucis (January 3, 2013)

... Feasts for the Exaltation and the finding of the Holy Cross

107 Christmas - Eastern Liturgies 18 - Coptic Christians in Cairo (December 27, 2012)

... the student cathedralchoir of St Marcus in Cairo

106¹ Eastern Liturgies 17 - Iakovos Nafpliotis (1864-1942) (January 10, 2013)

... the Old School of the Patriarchate in Istanbul

105 Graindelavoix & Björn Schmelzer - Ossuaires (December 13, 2012)

... 1 Psalm and 4 responsories for Elisabeth of Hungary

104 The Hilliard Ensemble & Jan Garbarek (saxophone) (December 6, 2012)

... Officium from 1994, the first CD of a fruitful collaboration

103 Schola Gregoriana Monacensis - Prope est Dominus (November 29, 2012)

... Chants for Advent reconstructed according semiological principles

102 Schola Resupina - Canticum Amantissimi (November 22, 2012)

... Psalm 44 (45), Maria and organ

101 Trialogue - Hinduism, Christianity & Islam (November 15, 2012)

... Aruna Sairam, Dominique Vellard, Noureddin Tahiri e.a.

100 Trio Gregoriana sings the Russolo-Vespers (November 8, 2012)

... celebrating ten years Trio Gregoriana; see here the movie

099 Eastern Liturgies 16 - Father Dositheos (1912-1991) (November 1, 2012)

... a blind priest as shining example

098 Eastern Liturgies 15 - Along the Via Egnatia (October 25, 2012)

... from Constantinopel via Bulgaria and Epirus back to Rome

097 Dominique Vellard - Veritas mea (October 18, 2012)

... this LP provided the tune for Bonum est

096 Eastern Liturgies 14 - The Divine Liturgie in Minsk (October 11, 2012)

... Byzantine, Russian and Bulgarian chant from the Saint Elisabeth monastery

095 Sequenses from Norway (October 4, 2012)

... medieval sequenses for norwegian and other saints

094 Eastern Liturgies 13 - Qaraqosh - Christians from Iraq (September 27, 2012)

... several choirs from northern Iraq, with a clear influence from the West

093 Eastern Liturgies 12 - Three Armenian CD's (September 20, 2012)

... Lusine Zakarian et al. sing Komitas Vardapet & Makar Yekmalian

092 Barbara Zanichelli - Hildegard von Bingen (September 13, 2012)

... wayward interpretation of antiphons, lectures and responsories

091 Psallentes - Lambertus (September 6, 2012)

... antiphons and responsories for 7th century Lambertus

090 Vox Clamantis - Filia Sion (August 30, 2012)

... chants about the old-testament "daughter of Sion"

089 Eastern Liturgies 11 - Petros Bereketis - Theotoke Parthene (August 23, 2012)

... Byzantine chant for Mary as Mother of God

088 Assumption of Mary - Clemens VI, Avignon XIV century (August 16, 2012)

... a 14th-century mass

087 Christopher Page & Gothic Voices (August 9, 2012)

... music for church and court, 12th till 15th century

086 Tetsuro Hanai & Vocal Ensemble Cappella (August 2, 2012)

... lamentations and Maria-motets from an Alamire manuscript

085 Discantus - Hortus Deliciarum (July 26, 2012)

... twelfth and thirteenth-century chant

084 Red Byrd - A Scottish Lady Mass (July 19, 2012)

... twelth-century St Andrews in Scotland

083 Anonymous 4 - Miracles of Compostella (July 12, 2012)

... music from the stolen and found Calixtinus manuscript

082 Eastern Liturgies 10 - Chevetogne (July 5, 2012)

... Eastern Liturgy in the West

081 Eastern Liturgies 9 - Thyrathen - post-byzantine music (June 28, 2012)

... Eastern music during the Western classical period

080 Eastern Liturgies 8 - Divna & Lycourgos Angelopoulos (June 21, 2012)

... Greek Orthodox and Serbian Orthodox chant

079 Gregorian Festivals 2012 - Watou / Ravenstein (June 14, 2012)

... some performers of the festivals in 2012

078 László Dobszay - Mass and Vespers for Epiphany (June 7, 2012)

... the Milanese version, recordings from 2010

077 Pentecost with Wim van Gerven - Mass and Vespers (May 31, 2012)

... recordings from 1969 when the Dutch liturgy made its appearance

076 Eastern Liturgies 7: Byzantine chant - le Choeur Byzantin de Grèce (May 24, 2012)

... one of the great exemples for Marcel Pérès

075 Schola Cantorum Karolus Magnus - The Martyred Virgins (May 17, 2012)

... a monument for the female victims of violence

074 Psallentes - Bellum & Pax (May 10, 2012)

... Renaissance music for war and peace

073 Easter with Hubert Dopf and Fulvio Rampi (May 3, 2012)

... Easter chants from recent overview boxes

072 Easter - Les trois Maries (April 26,2012)

... a fourteenth-century Easterplay from Origny-Sainte-Benoîte

071 Eastern Liturgies 6: Ottoman Jewish - Cantor Isaac Algazi (April 19, 2012)

... one of the leading Turkish musicians of the interbellum

070 Easter - Eastern Liturgies 5: Hindu Shaivism (April 12, 2012)

... Sri Rudram, a text for daily recitation, older than the Psalms

069 Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday 3 - Amsterdam 1985 (April 5, 2012)

... the end of Matins and then the Lauds

068 Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday 2 - Amsterdam 1985 (March 29, 2012)

... the betrayal of Judas and fine responsories

067 Tenebrae of Maundy Thursday 1 - Amsterdam 1985 (March 22, 2012)

... Wim van Gerven and his Schola with beautiful lamentations

066 Johannes Berchmans Göschl - Hosanna Filio David (March 15, 2012)

... chants for Holy Week from the Graduale Novum

065 Eastern Liturgies 4: Buddhist Matins in Shanghai (March 8, 2012)

... singing and chanting in the Longhua-temple in Shanghai, 1992

064 Eastern Liturgies 3: Syrian Maronite Chant (March 1, 2012)

... Passion and Easter in Arabic chants

063 Vellard, Sairam & Tahiri in Gent (Feb 23, 2012)

... Christianity, Hinduism and Islam come together in De Bijloke

062 Sext, Vespers & Compline (Feb 16, 2012)

... three integral office hours

061 Franciscan Corsican Polyphony (Feb 9, 2012)

... chants for St. Francis and the Requiem

Bonum est moved from Sunday 17.00 to Thursday 18.00

060 Canto Visigotico-Mozarabe (Feb 5, 2012)

... a repertoire that almost completely disappeared

059 Gothic voices - Missa Veterem Hominem (Jan 29, 2012)

... a model Mass and chant from the Sarum tradition

058 Mantra's 4: The Psalms (Jan 22, 2012)

... eighteen full psalm by various performers

057 Ensemble Organum - Marcel & Ursula (Jan 15, 2012)

... Marcel's Mass, and antiphons for Ursula by Hildegard

056 Eastern Liturgies 2: The Syrian Orthodox Church (Jan 8, 2012)

... Tur Abdin, one of the traditions of the Antiochene liturgy

055 Mantra's 3: O gloriosa Domina (Jan 1, 2012)

... Spain & Japan for benefit of the aftermath of the disaster in Sendai

054 Christmas - Eastern Liturgies 1: An Ethiopian Mass (Dec 25, 2011)

... Alexandrian liturgy of the Ethiopian church in Jerusalem

053 Mantra's 2: Canticum Trium Puerorum (Dec 18, 2011)

... several times: three young men in the fiery furnace

052 Gregorian Blue Notes - Chant & Saxophone (Dec 11, 2011)

... Officium & Seefelder - consecration of the house of God in Worms 2001

051 Schola Maastricht - Four City-devotions (Dec 4, 2011)

... Wyck, Servatius, Lambertus & Maria, Welle of Mercy

050 Tiburtina Ensemble - Flos inter spinas (Nov 27, 2011)

... for the second time: women singing about women

049 Mantra's 1: Christus vincit (Nov 20, 2011)

... the art is in the repetition ...

048 Martin Spaink solo (1989) and with Rollin Rachele (1992) (Nov 13, 2011)

... the first dutch gregorian chant soloconcert ... and more

The Concertzender moved from Amsterdam to Utrecht

047 Diabolus in Musica - Historia Sancti Martini (Oct 9, 2011)

... Matins for St. Martin from 13th century Tours

046 Early recordings 3 - Rome, New York, Solesmes & Dortmund (Oct 2, 2011)

... Joseph Pothier, André Mocquereau, Justine Ward, Joseph Gajard & Romuald Pfeffer

045 Psallentes Femina - Beghinae (Sep 25, 2011)

... beguines from Brugge, Mechelen, Turnhout, Antwerp and Amsterdam

044 Religious Polyphony from Corsica (Sep 11, 2011)

... could chant have sounded like this?

043 Early recordings 2 - Paris, Berlin, Salzburg, Montserrat ... (Sep 4, 2011)

... some wayward interpretations, with and without organ

042 Dominique Vellard - Medieval Songs of Love and Loss (Aug 28, 2011)

... where secular and religious music meet

041 Oni Wytars - Swimming through the Mediterranean (Aug 21, 2011)

... early worlds of improvisation between East and West

040 Assumption of Mary - Trio Mediaeval, A Worcester Ladymass (Aug 14, 2011)

... from the thirteenth-century Worcester fragments

039 Early recordings 1: Ampleforth, Trier, Venray & Rome; ca 1930 (Aug 7, 2011)

... before the style of Solesmes became dominant

038 Scola Metensis - Les Trois Évêchés (July 31, 2011)

... chant form the dioceses Metz, Toul & Verdun

037 To Santiago de Compostella with Schola Bamberg (July 24, 2011)

... old and new music for the pilgrimage

036 Vellard & Zuckerman - Two modal traditions (July 17, 2011)

... kinship of four modes and four raga's

035 Le Cercle de l'Extase - Chant and Sufism (July 10, 2011)

... dancing dervishes and ... what are these monks doing?

034 The Sacred Bridge - Jews and Christians in Medieval Europe (July 3, 2011)

... with a song from the time of Christ

033 Rebecca Stewart - Josquin's Mass "lesse faire a mi" (June 26, 2011)

... long lines from the Renaissance

032 Missa Gotica - Pentecost with Marcel Pérès (June 19, 2011)

... Pérès style ... applied to gregorian chant

031 Pentecost with Mario Hacquard and Volny Hostiou (June 12, 2011)

... wayward, certainly no mainstream

030 Vellard and Sairam: Southern India and Medieval Europe (June 5, 2011)

... fuze of musical traditions from East and West

029 Solesmes a 1000 years (May 29, 2011)

... a monument in the history of chant

028 Amarcord - A 15th-century Marian Office from Hamburg (May 22, 2011)

... nine antiphons and nine responsories

027 Schola Maastricht - The Vespers of St. Servaas (May 15, 2011)

... the first bishop of Maastricht died in 384

026 Antonio Cifra - The Vespers of the Mother of God from Loreto (May 8, 2011)

... early 17-century compositions on a 14-century legend

025 100 years Easter with the monks of Solesmes (May 1, 2011)

... Mocquéreau, Gajard & Claire

024 Easter - Old Roman Chant and the Gregorian Ordinarium (April 24, 2011)

... Ensemble Organum under direction of Marcel Pérès

023 Oral Traditions: A journey along the Mediterranean (April 17, 2011)

... from Spain, Africa and Italy to Sardinia

022 Canty, Celtic saints in Medieval Europe (April 10, 2011)

... classical and traditional, old and new, East and West

021 Mid-Lent: Moses in Quran and great responsories (April 3, 2011)

... cooperation between Christianity and Islam

020 Chant & cello - David Eben & Jiří Bárta (March 27, 2011)

... Schola Gregoriana Pragensis, old and new, vocal and instrumental

019 Stefan Morent & Notker Balbulus (March 20, 2011)

... chant, sequenses, tropes and the "Ludwigslied"

018 First Sunday of Lent: Psalm 90(91) (March 13, 2011)

... several performers

017 Farewell to the Alleluia (March 6, 2011)

... several alleluia's and 9 responsories on their farewell

016 Shōmyō & Chant - David Eben & Saikawa Buntai (Feb 27, 2011)

... how music can cross boundaries that otherwise seem impassable

015 Great Offertories - Part 2 (Feb 20, 2011)

... demonstration of performance options

014 Twice Mozarabic Chant - Saenz & Peres (Feb 13, 2011)

... preserved Hispanic chant from the 11th century and the Renaissance

013 Hymns & ilâhîler - Al Farabi led by Wouter Swets (Feb 6, 2011)

... metric and microtonal reconstructions

012 Hervé Lamy on Charlemagne (Jan 30, 2011)

... as builder, educator, king, anointed ...

011 Dialogos - Lombards & barbares (Jan 23, 2011)

... gregorian and beneventan chant from Monte Casino

010 Vox Clamantis & Weekend Guitar Trio (Jan 16, 2011)

... modern spirituality

009 Epiphany and the great offertories (Jan 9, 2011)

... several performers with complete offertories

008 La Fête des Fous - Obsidienne led by Emmanuel Bonnardot (Jan 2, 2011)

... once in a while you must be weird

007 The Christmas Mass (Dec 26, 2010)

... several performers

006 Voices - Chant from Avignon (Dec 19, 2010)

... something went wrong

005 Drums 'n' Chant - Martin Grubinger (Dec 12, 2010)

... gregorian chant with percussion

004 Ambrose of Milan (Dec 5, 2010)

... gregorian and ambrosian chant

003 The first and the last Sunday of the Church year (Nov 28, 2010)

... Psalm 129 and Psalm 24

002 30 years Dominique Vellard & Ensemble Gilles Binchois (Nov 21, 2010)

... early and recent recordings

001 30 years gregorian chant on CD; two colourful masses (Nov 14, 2010)

... survey of interpretations

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