TITLE : Sacred Arias
CATALOGUE NUMBER : 075 103-2 PH
INTERNATIONAL RELEASE DATE : April 2000
 
WORKS
Ave Maria – Caccini/Mercurio
Ave Maria – Bach/Gounod
Ombra mai fu – Handel Serse
Hallelujah Chorus – Handel Messiah
Ave Maria – Schubert
Cujus animam – Rossini Stabat Mater
Amen – Rossini Stabat Mater
Ingemisco – Verdi Requiem
Sanctus – Verdi Requiem
Domine Deus – Rossini Petite Messe solennelle
Va, pensiero – Verdi Nabucco
Pietà, Signore – Niedermeyer
Panis angelicus – Franck
Sancta Maria – Mascagni/Mercurio
Adeste fideles (O come, all ye faithful) – Trad.
Mille cherubini in coro – Schubert
Astro del ciel (Silent Night) – Gruber
Jubilee Hymn (bonus track)
 
ARTISTS
Andrea Bocelli (Album feature)
Orchestra e coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
Myung-Whun Chung
 
COMPOSERS
Various (See Works section)
 
RECORDING INFORMATION
This new DVD release of the already successful Sacred Arias home video brings these timeless arias well and truly into the twenty-first century.

The release features 5.1 Dolby Digital surround sound, as well as stereo, bringing the original magic of the concert at the Basilica of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome even closer.

Not only does this DVD offer superior sound and picture quality, it also has several bonus tracks not included on the home video:

• The Jubilee Hymn (Gloria a te, Cristo Gesù) – also in surround sound

• Footage of Bocelli rehearsing with orchestra and Myung-Whun Chung at the piano, plus interview footage.

• Footage of Bocelli, this time with Zubin Mehta discussing the forthcoming La Boheme CD release..
 
 
LATEST RELEASES
462 600-2/4 Sacred Arias