Faure Requiem - Op48 - 7 - In Paradisum - Alto

Faure Requiem Part Links Soprano    • Faure Requiem - Soprano Practice   Alto    • Faure Requiem - Alto Practice   Tenor    • Faure Requiem - Tenor Practice   Bass    • Faure Requiem - Bass Practice   All-Parts    • Faure Requiem - Choir Practice   Alto Choir Practice: " In Paradisum " from "Requiem" Op48 - 7 by Gabriel Fauré . Fauré appends two movements to his original Requiem : "Libera me" and "In Paradisum" - both from the liturgy for burial. By including both movements, Fauré connected the funeral service and the burial into a single composition. "In Paradisum" is sung outside the church, en route to the cemetery. Fauré sought to create a mass to comfort the living, and he saw death "as a happy deliverance, an aspiration towards the happiness of the hereafter, rather than as a painful passing away." For this reason, he adds the "In Paradisum" text to emphasize the granting of eternal rest. In Paradisum deducant Angeli, in tuo adventu suscipiant te Martyres et perducant te in civitatem sanctam Jerusalem. Chorus Angelorum te suscipiat, et cum Lazaro quondam paupere, aeternam habeas requiem May angels lead you into Paradise. At your coming may martyrs receive you, and may they lead you into the Holy City, Jerusalem. May the chorus of angels receive you, and with Lazarus, who once was a pauper, may you have eternal rest.