Track Listing

1. Ave Maria - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Giulio Romano Caccini, Steven Mercurio
2. Sancta Maria - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Pietro Mascagni
3. Ave Maria: arr. from Bach's Prelude No.1 BWV 846 - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Charles Gounod
4. Ave Maria, "Ellens Gesang III", D839 - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Franz Schubert
5. Panis Angelicus - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, César Franck
6. 2. Cujus animam gementem - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Gioacchino Rossini
7. 2. Ingemisco - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Giuseppe Verdi
8. Ave verum corpus, K.618 - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
9. Der Engel - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Richard Wagner
10. Frondi tenere e belle ... Ombra mai fu - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, George Frideric Handel
11. Pietà, Signore - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Abraham Louis Niedermeyer
12. Domine Deus - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Gioacchino Rossini
13. Mille Cherubini in coro - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, Franz Schubert
14. Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro Di Voci Bianche Dell' Arcum, Myung-Whun Chung, Franz Gruber
15. Adeste Fideles (O come, all ye faithful) - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, John Francis Wade
16. Gloria a te, Cristo Gesù - Andrea Bocelli, Anna Barry, Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale Di Santa Cecilia, Myung-Whun Chung, J.P. Lécot

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3091 in Music
• Released on: 2002-05-13
• Number of discs: 1
• Dimensions: .24 pounds
• Running time: 62 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
When he was growing up, Andrea Bocelli recalls finding inspiration in a favourite recording of sacred music performed by tenor legend Franco Corelli. Bocelli--who in the meantime has come to inspire millions of fiercely loyal fans himself--returns to the genre as the guiding theme of Sacred Arias, the release of which coincides with the first major English-language biography of the singer. These performances are filled with the singer's phenomenally well-known vocal signature: his flair for long, sweetly floating high notes and the gentle sense of cadence he brings to a melody. It's a mistake to compartmentalise Bocelli into a singer of "operatic" versus "popular" styles: in truth his approach is at heart the same. Lack of colour and control in his phrasing remains a drawback, but the emotional empathy Bocelli evokes is never in doubt. The arias collected here sample some of the most famous devotional pieces: Schubert's "Ave Maria" and Mozart's transporting "Ave Verum," as well as an arrangement of "Silent Night" in which Bocelli tries out his English. There's also a decidedly odd choice of bedfellows for a programme of "sacred" music, such as a song from Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder (whose "angel" is the object of an overpoweringly erotic attraction) and Handel's figurative ode to a tree, "Ombra mai fu". Still, Bocelli sings with an unfeigned directness that is sure to expand his already enormous following even further. --Thomas May

Customer Reviews

beautiful voice
Quite simply Andrea Bocellie's Sacres Arias is a stunning piece of work. Andrea has a beautiful voice. He moves me. Anybody who loves this sort of music will become totally entranced with this. I am often moved to tears when i play Andrea's voice. I would highly recemmend this cd.

Sixteen tracks of heaven � buy it!
All sixteen tracks have inordinate beauty. The sacred arias wash over me in a musical flood.

I am absorbed.

The second Ave Maria is my favourite. As the blurb has it, Gounod adds a vocal line of indelible beauty over Bach's prelude.

"Sancta Maria, ora pro nobis peccatoribus - Holy Mary, pray for us sinners". Andrea Bocelli holds the sweet notes aloft like coloured ping-pong balls on columns of air, the voice savoured in the mouth, longer it seems than the composer intended.

He plays with these sounds, turning them, searching for the precise tone, the exact interpretation, teasing me. His timing is exquisite, his delivery adept in its empathy with his listeners. I'm servile, my being bequeathed to him.

At last the phrase is unleashed, spilling like a torrent of water. We are surfing, this singer and I, on a tidal wave of emotion: "Nunc et in hora mortis nostrae - now and in the hour of my death". But not until we reach the Amen, can I subside, drained, the tear unbidden.

Buy it! You won't be disappointed.

After "Romanza" I was not quite so keen on "Opera Arias"
After "Romanza" I was not quite so keen on "Opera Arias", I dont think that the recording quite captured the fine voice of Andrea Bocelli, however I am not put off, and will go on to look for more CD's with more of his songs.