Vatican City, May 4, 2009 / 08:23 am
Celebrating the fourth anniversary of Benedict XVI’s pontificate, Italian President Giorgio Napolitano offered a concert for him last Thursday. The evening included music from the Giuseppe Verdi Orchestra and the Choir of Milan, conducted, respectively, by Xian Zhang and Erina Gambarini.
The concert program included Franz Joseph Haydn's 95th Symphony, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's 35th Symphony, Antonio Vivaldi's Magnificat and the famous "Ave Verum Corpus," also by Mozart.