AVE MARIA
Created on 13/06/2002Latest update on 29/04/2019
Artist: Edith Clegg
Author: Franz Schubert
Label: Berliner
Year: 1898
Oldest recording on EMI's Centenary Edition (1897-1997). Schubert (also a centenary in '97) wrote this in 1826. The lyrics are a German translation of Sir Walter Scott's Hymn To The Virgin.
Covers:
- 1914:
- 1917:
- 1928:
John McCormack [with Fritz Kreisler on violin]
- 1934:
- 1936:
- 1939:
- 1940:
Leopold Stokowski [in Disney film Fantasia; vocal: Julietta Novis with lyrics by Rachel Field]
- 1940:
Tino Rossi [in film Fièvres]
- 1941:
- 1943:
- 1955:
- 1959:
- 1963:
- 1966:
Joan Baez [in German]
- 1968:
- 1969:
Curt Borkmann [as Eva Magdalena crediting Karl Gotz/Kurt Hertha]
- 1969:
Malcolm Roberts [idem]
- 1971:
D.C. Lewis [idem; hit NL]
- 1973:
Nana Mouskouri [in Latin]
- 1987:
- 1989:
Piet Veerman [recorded both Ave Maria's]
- 1991:
Brave Combo [in Latin]
- 1994:
- 1998:
- 1999:
- 2008:
Priests [in Latin]
- 2008:
Beyoncé [just the intro and refrain]
Not Charles Gounod's Ave Maria, based upon J.S. Bach's first Prelude (recorded by Frances Alda & John McCormack), nor Kahn's (recorded by Enrico Caruso and Mario Lanza).
