Faure’s Requiem–Sanctus,Pie Jesu & Agnus Dei
August 14, 2009
“My Requiem…has been said to express no fear of death; it has been called a lullaby of death. But that is how I feel about death: a happy deliverance, a reaching for eternal happiness, rather than a mournful passing…Perhaps I have sought to depart from what is conventional because for so long I was organist at services of interment. I’m fed up with that. I wanted to do something different.” –Faure
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Thank you for those. They are easily worth all the discussions.
Gabriel Austin,
You are welcome. But you’d be sadly surprised how few people take the time to pause and give these classical pieces a listening.
YES! The word “lullaby” is exactly what popped into my head the first time I heard Faure’s Pie Jesu.
It should be remembered that the text is last couplet of the Dies irae. And that in olden days many Catholics would sing it at requiem masses.
Mark:
Why not just make a daily post of single items as you find them? They are buried in You Tube.
They would certainly be worth more than all the sociologico/econimoco/historico/politico discussions that take so many words and space.