ECCE COR MEUM & Beatles Greatest Hits by McCartney, Lennon, J., Mie 24 Apr. 2024, De la (2024/2024), Dirijor Lorenzo Bizzarri, Teatro Comunale, Ferrara, Italy

Ecce Cor Meum is the fourth studio album by Paul McCartney, produced and orchestrated by John Fraser. It is a four-part oratorio, with Latin and English lyrics, for solo voices, orchestra, youth and adult choir, commissioned to McCartney by the prestigious Magdalene College, Oxford. Published in 2006, it required over eight years of study, research and work by the Beatles’ bassist, inspired by the cult of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and a statue of Christ in the New York church of Saint Ignatius, at whose feet stands the inscription from which the work takes its name. The premiere in the United States, broadcast live on radio, took place on November 14, 2006 in a sold out Carnegie Hall: Alongside the Orchestra of St. Luke conducted by Gavin Greenaway the performance featured the Concert Chorale of New York and the American Boychoir, with soprano Kate Royal and tenor Andrew Staple as soloists.