The short video attached is part of the Sanctus sung at the 10:45 service on Sunday, November 2, 2014 Selections from Gabriel Faure’s Requiem were included in our worship at all Eucharists yesterday, most prominently and completely at the 10:45 Eucharist. Fauré’s Requiem is unique. He leaves by the wayside themes of anguish, loss, death and Judgment Day common to the requiems of other composers. Instead, he concentrates on the literal meaning of “Requiem” — rest. The music is serene, elevating, and comforting, aiming to convey peaceful acceptance and release. Faure himself wrote, 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. He told an interviewer, 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.” Sanctus, Sanctus, Sanctus Dominus Deus Sabaoth Pleni sunt coeli et terra gloria tua Hosanna in excelsis. Holy, holy, holy, Lord God of Sabaoth heaven and earth are full of Thy glory Hosanna in the highest.
Posted on: Mon, 03 Nov 2014 16:46:42 +0000