Written between 1887 and 1890, Gabriel Faure’s setting of the requiem is a departure from traditional structure.
Faure said the following of his work:
"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."
This score represents the choral portion of the Requiem, each voice on a separate staff, including solos, with both Latin and English text.
The book is 75 pages in length, with approximately 7 by 10 ½ inch pages, including an orchestra reduction for either piano or organ accompaniment by Malcolm Binney.
Includes:
Introit et Kyrie
Offertoire
Sanctus
Pie Jesu
Agnus Dei
Libera Me
In Paradisum