French Benedictine nuns have posted on the internet more than 7,000 hours of Gregorian chants after agreeing to take part in what is said to be the biggest recording project in history.
The 45 nuns who live in the Notre-Dame de Fidélité de Jouques abbey in Provence are recording the entire Gregorian repertory with the help of John Anderson, an American producer.
Mr Anderson, whose aunt was a nun at the abbey, placed eight microphones in the chapel to begin recording the chants in March 2019. Each day the nuns, who are aged between 26 and 85, turn on the microphones to ensure that all seven services are recorded. They turn them off again at night, when the recordings are downloaded by engineers working with