Ave Maria (Bach/Gounod)

The quality of the clip is everything but good. However, my mother sang this wonderful piece on our wedding. She is not a professional singer but certainly her interpretation of this wonderful oiece of music made me fight back the tears.
The Bach/Gounod Ave Maria is a popular and much-recorded setting of the Latin text Ave Maria.
Written by French Romantic composer Charles Gounod in 1859, his Ave Maria consists of a melody superimposed over the Prelude No. 1 in C major from Book I of the Well-Tempered Clavier (BWV 846), composed by J. S. Bach some 137 years earlier. (Gounod adds one bar so as to smooth out a rough change in harmony in the prelude.)

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