The album contains many sacred favorites,
such as Franck’s Panis angelicus, Verdi’s Ingemisco, Mozart’s Ave verum
corpus and both Schubert’s and Caccini’s Ave Maria. It also includes
beautiful music composed specifically for the Sistine Chapel Choir
and has never before been recorded or performed outside the ensemble.
On Ave Maria, Vittorio is joined by his friend and former fellow Sistine
chorister Fabio Cerrone, conductor of the Orchestra Roma Sinfonietta,
and he teams up once more with the current youngsters of the choir.
“When I met the boys during the recording process, I felt for a moment as if I’d stepped back into my past,”
he says. “I feel Ave Maria is a tribute to all the incredible people who helped me as a boy, and to all the hours we
studied and practiced in those little rooms in the chapel. This album is a dream come true for me.” Ave Maria
is available in a standard jewelcase version and as a deluxe digipak that includes a bonus track, more photos and
full lyrics.

List of Songs:

1.  Ave Maria
   Giovanni Maria Catena  
2.  Fermarono i cieli (antica melodia napoletana)
   Giovanni Maria Catena  
 3.  Maria, che dolce nome
    Campetti 
4.  Panis Angelicus (from Mass, M. 61, Op. 12)
    César Franck  
5.  Dolce cuor del mio Gesù
    Gaetano Capocci 
6.  Ave Maria
     Domenico Bartolucci  
7.  Ingemisco (from Messa da Requiem)
     Giuseppe Verdi  
8.  Ave Maria
    Giulio Caccini  
9.  O celeste Verginella
     Giovanni Maria Catena  
10. Ave verum Corpus, KV 618
     Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 
11.  Pietà, Signore!
      Louis Abraham Niedermeyer 
12.  Ave Maria ("Ellens Gesang III", Op. 52/6, D 839 (Italian Version))
       Franz Schubert  
13. Voglio Chiamar Maria
      Traditional  
14.  O bella mia speranza
        Lorenzo Perosi 
15.  Exaudi Domine
        Lorenzo Perosi  
16. Serenata (Ständchen D 957/4)
        Franz Schubert  
17.  Salve Regina
        Gaetano Capocci  
18. O Holy Night featuring Jackie Evancho – Adolphe Adam