One weekend morning I was brushing my teeth while listening to the radio and did a double-take as I thought I heard a jazz piano version of Libera Me from Faure's Requiem. I thought it was brilliant. I sang this in the MUN Festival Choir in 1982 or 1983 and I loved it; some of the harmonies reminded me of stuff like the Beatles' Sun King. The words to Libera Me are:
Libera me, Domine, de morte aeterna, in die illa tremenda quando coeli
movendi sunt et terra, dum veneris judicare saeculum per ignem.
Deliver me, O Lord, from eternal death, on that fearful day when the heavens
are moved and the earth when thou shalt come to judge the world through fire.
Faure's setting is mellow; this is even mellower. The end of it is like a heartbeat slowing down and then stopping.
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