Sacred Arias

by Andrea Bocelli

Sacred Arias cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 9 November 1999
  • Label: Philips
  • Country: Italy
  • Length: 59:07
  • Community rating: 3.85/5 from 1 rating

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Bocelli recorded the sixteen-track program of sacred arias, including 'Ave Maria' and 'Panis Angelicus', with the orchestra and choir of the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia conducted by Myung-Whun Chung and produced by Anna Barry. It sold more than five million copies and is recognised by Guinness World Records as the biggest-selling classical album by a solo artist.

Genres

Descriptors: spirituality, choral, orchestral, male-vocals, soaring-vocals

Tracklist

  1. Ave Maria (3:46)
  2. Sancta Maria (3:36)
  3. Ave Maria, CG 89a (After J.S. Bach: Prelude in C Major, BWV 846) (3:03)
  4. Ave Maria, D. 839 (2:31)
  5. Panis Angelicus, FWV 61 (3:32)
  6. Stabat Mater: II. Cujus animam gementem (5:32)
  7. Requiem: IIh. Ingemisco (4:10)
  8. Ave verum corpus, K. 618 (3:05)
  9. Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91: I. Der Engel (Orch. Mottl) (3:04)
  10. Serse, HWV 40, Act I: Frondi tenere e belle – Ombra mai fù (3:56)
  11. Pietà, Signore (6:59)
  12. Petite messe solennelle: II. Gloria. Domine Deus (4:38)
  13. Mille cherubini in coro (After Wiegenlied, D. 498) [Arr. Mercurio for Tenor] (3:54)
  14. Adeste Fideles (2:54)
  15. Gloria a te, Cristo Gesù (4:19)

Credits

  • Steven Mercurio - composed by, arranged by
  • Dick Reynolds - arranged by
  • ULN - lyrics by [italian]
  • Thijs Hoekstra - edited by, engineer
  • Jean-Marie Geijsen - engineer, mixed by
  • Anna Barry - producer, mixed by
  • Carl Schuurbiers - edited by
  • Matthijs Ruijter - edited by
  • Rico Yntema - edited by
  • Sem de Jongh - edited by
  • Everett Porter - engineer
  • Roger de Schot - engineer
  • Clive Bennett - executive producer
  • Guido Harari - photography by
  • Paul Vozdic - photography by
  • Vivianne Purdom - photography by
  • Hermine Sterringa - producer
  • Giulio Caccini - composed by
  • Pietro Mascagni - composed by
  • Charles Gounod - composed by
  • Johann Sebastian Bach - composed by
  • Franz Schubert - composed by
  • César Franck - composed by
  • Gioacchino Rossini - composed by
  • Giuseppe Verdi - composed by
  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart - composed by
  • Richard Wagner - composed by
  • Georg Friedrich Händel - composed by
  • Louis Niedermeyer - composed by
  • Franz Gruber - composed by
  • Traditional - composed by
  • J.P. Frié - lyrics by
  • Jean-Paul Lécot - music by
  • Lennart Dehn - producer

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