Vittorio Grigolo - Ave Maria (2013) [Official Digital Download]

The Italian Tenor - Vittorio Grigolo - has an extraordinary background story and he now shares this through a very personal album of sacred music. Schooled at the “very source of sacred music” – in the Sistine Chapel Choir, Vittorio returns to Rome and his childhood choir to present a special collection of beautiful, serene and spiritual songs that played a large role in his musical beginnings.

The songs chosen have a very personal connection to Vittorio. Hand-selected musical gems from his time spent in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel choir appear newly arranged and combined with eternally popular “holy hits” such as Schubert’s “Ave Maria”, Franck’s “Panis Angelicus”, Verdi’s “Ingemisco” and Mozart’s “Ave verum Corpus”.

The album also offers a wealth of diverse and novel arrangements – on some songs Vittorio is joined by the Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta, and the Sistine Chapel Choir, while on others the tenor and chamber ensemble arrangements of “Panis Angelicus”, “Ave verum

TRACKLIST
1 Giovanni Maria Catena: Ave Maria
2 Giovanni Maria Catena: Fermarono i cieli
3 Campetti: Maria, che dolce nome
4 César Franck: Messe à troix voix, Op. 12: Panis Angelicus
5 Gaetano Capocci: Dolce cuor del mio Gesù
6 Domenico Bartolucci: Ave Maria
7 Giuseppe Verdi: Ingemisco
8 Giulio Caccini: Ave Maria
9 Giovanni Maria Catena: O celeste Verginella
10 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Ave verum corpus, K. 618
11 Louis Abraham Niedermeyer: Pietà, Signore!
12 Franz Schubert: Ave Maria, "Ellens Gesang III", Op. 52/6, D. 839
13 Traditional: Voglio Chiamar Maria
14 Lorenzo Perosi: O bella mia speranza
15 Lorenzo Perosi: Exaudi Domine
16 Franz Schubert: La Sérénade de Schubert
17 Gaetano Capocci: Salve Regina
18 Franz Schubert: Ave Maria "Ellens Gesang III", Op. 52/6, D 839 (Long Version)

PERSONNEL
Vittorio Grigolo (tenor)
Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta,
Fabio Cerroni (conductor)