Performer: Joseph Calleja
Orchestra: Malta Philharmonic Orchestra
Conductor: Sergey Smbatyan
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Decca
Catalogue: 4853944
Release: 2023
Size: 2.25 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Mascagni: Cavalleria Rusticana: Ave Maria (arranged from Intermezzo sinfonico)
02. Verdi: Ingemisco (from Requiem)
03. Massenet: Ave Maria
04. Bizet: Agnus Dei
05. Bocelli: Ave Maria
06. anon.: Aria di Chiesa, “Pietà Signore”
07. Rossini: Stabat Mater: Cujus animam gementem
08. Rossini: Petite messe solennelle, Gloria: Domine Deus
09. Bizet: Au fond du temple saint (from Les Pêcheurs de Perles)
10. Wagner: Allmächt’ger Vater, blick herab! (from Rienzi)
11. Wagner: Der Engel (No. 1 from Wesendonck-Lieder)
12. Gruber: Silent Night
13. Adam: O Holy Night
14. Liguori: Tu scendi dalle stelle
15. Schubert: Ave Maria, D839
Joseph Calleja, one of the world’s leading tenors, announces ‘Ave Maria’ – his first ever sacred album. Here, Calleja is joined for the first time on record by the Malta Philharmonic Orchestra, with no less than four Ave Marias – by Mascagni, Massenet, Schubert and Andrea Bocelli. The album also features guest appearances by Daniel Hope on violin in (title) and French baritone Étienne Dupuis in the famous duet from The Pearl Fishers.