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Originally Posted by issybird
The best-known Ave Maria is Schubert's; this is the one sung by Pavarotti. Second place probably goes to Gounod's; he wrote a melody destined to be played in conjunction with a Bach piece.
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Thanks. Not Bach, but Schubert.
I just had to listen to a couple more renditions of the song. I was a little bit disappointed in Andrea Bocelli's. A little bit surprising to me, because he did a fantastic job with the few songs that I've heard him sing. The number 3 rendition (after Pavarotti and Il Volo) that I heard may be the Vienna Boys' Choir. There's only so much singing by pre-pubescent boys that I can stand, though. Bocelli would be 4th.