Music CD.

New album features His Holiness Pope Benedict XVI
reciting and singing passages and prayers.
Alma Mater
Latin for 'Nourishing Mother'
was made in honor of the Virgin Mary and features classical music enthusiast Pope Benedict XVI.
The album offers a blend of Lauretan Litanies and Marian popular chants with eight original pieces of modern classical music.
Thus far
the only other Pontiff to have released an audio CD was Pope John Paul II with Aber Pater in 1999.
Vatican Radio provided the Pope's recordings during official services at Mass
prayers
and speeches made mostly during Marian pilgrimages for use on the album.
The Pontiff was recorded in St.
Peter's Basilica singing passages and prayers in Latin
French
German
Italian
and Portuguese
backed up vocally by The Choir of the Philharmonic Academy of Rome conducted by Monsignor Pablo Colino
Maestro Emeritus of St.
Peter's Basilica.
Tracklist:

01.
Sancta Dei Genitrix

02.
Mater Ecclesiae

03.
Advocata Nostra

04.
Benedicta Tu

05.
Causa Nostrae Laetitiae

06.
Auxilium Christianorum

07.
Regina Coeli

08.
Magistra Nostra