Faure Requiem

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In 1902, the great French composer Gabriel Faure said this: "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 hap ...

In February of 1865, Johannes Brahms received a letter from his brother saying: "If you want to see our Mother again come at once." Brahms rushed off to Hamburg but was two days too late. He had long thought about composing a requiem but this seemed to be the catalyst for him ...

Peder B. Helland0:00​ - Post War3:50​ - Return of the Soldiers7:00​ - Farewell9:15​ - Tears12:37​ - The Song of the Heart16:45​ - Dawn of Hope19:43​ - Earth in the Sky24:39​ - Memories26:53​ - Echoes of the Forest31:37​ - The End34:40​ - My Promise*Repeated* 

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