Gabriel Faure
Requiem
- Pie Jesu
- In Paradisium
Choir of King's College, Cambridge, 1967
Treble: Robert Chilcott
The solo soprano sings the prayer to the "good Jesus" for everlasting rest. The one line of text is repeated three times, the first two times asking for "requiem" (rest), then intensified for "sempiternam requiem" (everlasting rest). The first call is a modal melody in B-flat major of six measures, the second call is similar but reaching up higher. The words "Dona eis, Domine, dona eis requiem" begin with more expansion, but reach alternating between only two notes on two repetitions of "sempiternam requiem". The last call begins as the first and leads again to alternating between two notes in even lower range, until the last "requiem" has a gentle upward motion. [Source: Wikipedia - Faure Requiem]Pie Jesu
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