This image is from the cover of the album I’m listening to now- a recording of Gabriel Fauré’s Requiem. It is such a beautiful recording, done by the choir at St. Mary’s Cathedral in Edinburgh. The sound of the organ mixed with the orchestra is full and ominous; I can imagine that hearing it live might have made you tremble.
Listen to the first track. The music alone is mysterious…
Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine,
et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Te decet hymnus, Deus, in Sion,
et tibi reddetur votum in Jerusalem.
Exaudi orationem meam;
ad te omnis caro veniet.
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