Requiem Kyrie, the Roman Catholic Mass for the Dead by Gabriel Fauré
Fauré on his Requiem, an inclination towards human tenderness: "It has been said that my Requiem does not express the fear of death and someone has called it a lullaby of death. But it is thus that I see death: as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards happiness above, rather than as a painful experience...Everything I managed to entertain by way of religious illusion I put into my Requiem, which moreover is dominated from beginning to end by a very human feeling of faith in eternal rest."
Simply magnificent. Thank you for sharing this.
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Thank you for this. It represents my thoughts on death.
ReplyDeleteVictoria Day comes and goes without a mention on The Monarchist? What a shame.
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ReplyDeleteI'm not sure whose Kyrie this is, but it's certainly not Fauré's. This is what the Kyrie of the Fauré Requiem sounds like (starting at about 2:40 after the Introit):
ReplyDeletehttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7U3W1fIUyJs
Actually now I am sure; if you finish listening and go to the original YouTube URL, this Kyrie is identified as that of Schubert's Mass in E-flat.
ReplyDeleteWell that's an embarrassing mistake - leave it to the mistro Theodore Harvey to pick that one up. I will nevertheless keep the post as is.
ReplyDeleteAs for the lack of a Victoria Day post, you will notice that only a couple of posts down, there is a video on Victoria R.