This is a virtual realisation of a movement from my Requiem Mass Impetrans Pacem with Eastwest Symphony Orchestra and choir
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Story behind the song
This movement comes after the Dies Irae (a previous posting) picking up on its closing sustained major ninth. Its subject is a lamentation for the waste and loss described in the Dies irae. It features the boys with the chorus and opens with dislocated syllables suggesting gasps and sobs, while solo strings wrap consoling lines around them as if in comfort. The lamentation crescendos to a wild expression of grief and then anger, before subsiding once more into the major ninth. Now it is the boys who have the consoling lines (sometimes wordlessly) over widely space choral chords. The movement ends on a high string tremolo C over rising thirds on a whole tone scale from the boys, leading straight into the Pie Jesu (already posted). This figure will be heard at the triumphant end of the whole Requiem, reminding us of the sorrow and, thence, the demand for peace.
Lyrics
Lacrymosa dies illa,
Qua resurget ex favilla,
Judicandus homo reus.
Huic ergo parce deus.
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