A Prayer Played On The Piano

Listening to Lang Lang play Franz Schubert's Ave Maria as transcribed by Franz Liszt [1] is like listening to the prayer in musical notes (start the performance at 0:17 and end it at 6:27 to skip the applause):

Ave Maria
Gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena
Maria, gratia plena

Ave, ave dominus
Dominus tecum
Benedicta tu in mulieribus
Et benedictus

Et benedictus fructus ventris
Ventris tuae, Jesus
Ave Maria

Ave Maria
Mater Dei
Ora pro nobis peccatoribus
Ora pro nobis, Ora, ora pro nobis peccatoribus

Nunc et in hora mortis
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Et in hora mortis nostrae
Ave Maria [2]

I do not know if Lang Lang says the Ave Maria prayer in Latin or if he is even Catholic, but it seems to me like he prayed the prayer in his heart as he played.


[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swtoFRl0VsA
[2] http://www.songlyrics.com/franz-schubert/ave-maria-lyrics/