Paolo Tosti composed this rare setting of the prayer. It evokes the sounds of a single person quietly but despairingly saying a prayer in an old Italian church as moon light arrives.
lyrics
Per le fulgenti cupole dorate
La melodia dell’organo suonava;
Lento moriva il di sulle vetrate;
Una nube d’incenso al ciel volava,
E dolcemente da ogni labbro uscita:
Ave Maria
Nella blanda mestizia di quell’ora
Tutta serenità di paradiso
Il cavaliere che sospiro ignora M’apparve,
e a lungo ci guardammo in viso:
Fu vana allora la preghiera mia,
Ave Maria
Dall’azzurro del ciel stendi la mano
A me infelice dal dolore affranta;
Deh! ch’io nel pianto non t’invochi invano,
Arridi al l’amor mio, Vergine santa:
Abbi pieta di me, Vergine pia.
Ave Maria.
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