Length 62:25 | Release date 9 November 1999 | |
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Released November 9, 1999 (1999-11-09) Genres Classical music, Religious music Awards Classic Brit Award for Best Selling Classical Album, Classic Brit Award for Album of the Year Similar Andrea Bocelli albums, Classical music albums | ||
1 andrea bocelli ave maria caccini mercurio sacred arias
Sacred Arias (Italian: Arie Sacre), is the sixth studio album by Andrea Bocelli.
Contents
- 1 andrea bocelli ave maria caccini mercurio sacred arias
- Track listing
- Awards
- PBS special
- Songs
- References
Released in 1999, the album, featuring music composed in traditional Christian styles, is not only Bocelli's most commercially successful classical album to date with over 5 million copies sold, but also the biggest selling classical album by any solo artist in history.
Track listing
- Caccini: "Ave Maria (Funeral for a Friend)"
- Mascagni: Cavalleria rusticana – "Sancta Maria"
- Gounod: "Ave Maria"
- Schubert: Ellens Gesang, Op. 52/6, D 839 – "Ave Maria"
- Franck: "Panis Angelicus"
- Rossini: Stabat Mater – "Cujus Animam"
- Verdi: Requiem – "Ingemisco"
- Mozart: "Ave verum corpus", K. 618
- Wagner: Wesendonck Lieder, WWV 91/1 – "Der Engel"
- Handel: Serse, HWV 40 – "Frondi tenere ... Ombra mai fu"
- Niedermeyer: "Pietà, Signore"
- Rossini: Petite Messe Solennelle – "Domine Deus"
- Schubert: Wiegenlied, Op. 98/2, D 498 – "Mille Cherubini In Coro"
- Gruber: "Silent Night"
- Wade: "Adeste Fideles (O Come, All Ye Faithful)"
- Lécot: "Gloria A Te, Cristo Gesù"
- Georges Bizet: "Agnus Dei" (Bonus)
- Eric Lévi: "I Believe" (Bonus)
Awards
In 2000, the album led Bocelli to receive an ECHO Klassik for "Bestseller of the year", as well as a 2000 Classical BRIT Award for "Album of the year", and a Goldene Europa for classical music, in 2000.
PBS special
Sacred Arias: The Home Video, a DVD of a 1999 concert, filmed in the church of Santa Maria sopra Minerva in Rome and conducted by Myung-whun Chung, of the music of the album was also released. The concert aired on PBS stations nationwide.
Sacred Arias Special Edition, a two disc set was also released in 2003, containing the DVD of the album.
Songs
1Ave Maria - Caccini3:50
2Sancta Maria - Mascagni3:37
3Ave Maria - Bach/Gounod3:01