Faure Requiem Libera Me Alto

Alto Choir Practice: " Libera me " from "Requiem" Op48 - 6 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. The Libera me is intended to be sung after the Mass has concluded, during the act of absolution; In Paradisum is sung outside the church, en route to the cemetery. Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna in die illa tremenda quando coeli movendi sunt et terra dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem Tremens factus sum ego et timeo dum discussio venerit atque ventura ira Dies illa, dies irae, calamitatis et miseriae dies illa, dies magna et amara valde. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine, et lux perpetua luceat eis. Free me, Lord, from eternal death on that terrible day when the heavens will move and the earth, when you come to judge the world with fire. I am made to tremble, and I fear, when the desolation shall come, and also the coming wrath. That day, the day of wrath, calamity, and misery, that terrible and exceedingly bitter day. When you come to judge the world through fire. Grant eternal rest to them, Lord, and let perpetual light shine on them.