Requiem, Op. 48.

This requiem is one of the sweetest and most tender ever written. Faure illustrates through musical means a heavenly environment of serene beauty, where our dead meet a loving family, and return once again home. The listener is bathed in the representation of an eternal home where there are no pains of hell. There is only the realization that eternal rest is a beautiful concept, and that our beloved are enshrined forever in that sweet state. Several choruses of sublime beauty require an intelligent approach to singing in order to achieve a great dramatic effect. Two very moving baritone solos flank the very well-known soprano solo, Pie Jesu. The work ends with In paradisum, an ethereal movement that fills the hearts of the audience with warmth and serene calm.