Tbilisi State Conservatoire Student Choir
Conductor - Grigol Kobakhidze
Ave verum corpus is a short Eucharistic chant that has been set to music by many composers. It dates to the 13th century. The prayer is a meditation on Jesus's Real Presence in the Blessed Sacrament, and ties it to the redemptive meaning of suffering in the life of all believers.
Franz Liszt completed the work after he retired as a concert pianist and became a monk. He declared that he was to enter a life of seclusion, and he retreated to a monastery outside Rome, receiving minor orders of the Catholic church, one of them was the Ave verum Corpus S.44.