Explore The Da Vinci Code

The perfect music for getting chased around an art museum by a secret society of killer monks.

Be sure to check out the soundtrack to the movie prequel, Angels and Demons.

Part of National Public Radio’s Milestones of the Millennium series, this is a great introduction to various styles of Renaissance music.

A good introduction to Gregorian chant, this was recorded by the monks at Benedictine monastery of Santo Domingo de Silos in Spain.

Each movement depicts a painting in a gallery, and the main promenade theme depicts walking through the gallery. (Presumably without the fight scenes…)

Who knew a capella could be so haunting? This composition explores “in chant and polyphony dread of the Last Judgment and fear of the end of the world which pervaded late tenth-century thought.”

Reward yourself for a mystery well-solved with these beautifully arranged choral recordings of Renaissance classics.

Respighi was inspired by the work of Botticelli to write Trittico Botticelliano (Three Botticelli pictures).

Picture yourself floating down the canals of Venice in brightly colored tights.

When members of Black Sabbath perform songs like “Atom and Evil,” “Rock and Roll Angel,” and “Breaking into Heaven,” this is the perfect antidote to classical music overload.