TITLE : Sacred Arias
CATALOGUE NUMBER : 462 600-2
INTERNATIONAL RELEASE DATE : November 1999
 
WORKS
Caccini/Mercurio - Ave Maria
Mascagni - Sancta Maria
Bach/Gounod - Ave Maria
Schubert - Ave Maria
Franck - Panis angelicus
Rossini - (Stabat Mater) Cujus animam
Verdi - (Requiem) Ingemisco
Mozart - Ave verum Corpus, K618
Wagner - (Wesendonck-Lieder) Der Engel
Handel - (Serse) Frondi tenere ... Ombra mai fu
Niedermeyer - Pietá, Signore
Rossini (Petite Messe solennelle) - Domine Deus
Schubert - Mille cherubini in coro
Gruber - Silent night
Trad. - Adeste fideles
J.P. Lécot - Gloria a te, Cristo Gesù
 
ARTISTS
Andrea Bocelli (Album feature)
Myung-Whun Chung
Orchestra e coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia
 
COMPOSERS
Various (See Works section)
 
RECORDING INFORMATION
The themes of the album are timelessness, purity, hope and devotion; all highly appropriate at the dawn of a new millennium and well beyond the end of the millennium.

Andrea feels that the opportunity to sing these sacred arias is a rare and privileged one. He particularly feels that the timing is appropriate to highlight their importance and that they have as much relevance now as they did when they were written. The album includes all of the most famous sacred arias (Caccini's, Bach's, Schubert's) as well as Gloria a te, Cristo Gesù, written in celebration of the millennium/Jubilee events in Rome. It also includes Christmas tracks, Silent night and Adeste fideles (O come, all ye faithful).