Gabriel Faure's Requiem Op. 48 Complete (Best Recording)

My 25 year old son died a few years ago....when I hear this I picture him being carried away by the angels. Lord give me strength. 😔

I first sang this when I was 18. I fell in love with it and have loved it ever since. I’m 71 now and I just lost a dear friend. I’m listening to it for him.

La vie m a arraché mon petit garçon. Il est décédé dans mes bras, j avais 25 ans. J'ai 72ans. Il m'a toujours habité, je sais qu on se retrouvera. La veille de son départ, il m'a fait des sourires.... je crois, qu il me disait que sa courte vie s arrêtait. Ç était un ange, venu peu sur terre. Je sais que les anges nous protègent. Mon petit Amour, je revois tes immenses yeux me fixer. Écoute avec moi ce requiem ❤❤❤❤

Shame on YouTube for gross ads ruining an amazing piece of music.

When I had a secondhand bookshop and quietly played recorded music, this one of the favourites. It was a recording with the choir of Canterbury Cathedral and soloists and a woman customer suddenly said " Oh ,that`s my husband singing that solo"

Dad, we played Agnus Dei and In Paradisum at your funeral.  You always loved this.  I miss you so much.  Sleep easy, Dad xxxx

commercial interruptions which insult by addressing us with the slovenly attired man's "um-hum." A requiem or any sacred work should never be interrupted.

My mom died on October 28th 2023. I've always liked this Requiem, and it helps me in this time of grief.

I have always loved Faure's Requiem. It is part of "soundtrack" of my life.I first heard this piece when I was no more than 3 years old. We lived in the housing projects in Chicago, but our little home was a haven of good music. My mother played a recording of this piece as she sewed up little Easter dresses for me and my sisters. Many years later as a cellist and music student, our orchestra and chorus at Roosevelt University performed this piece.

Faure’s Requiem - the most beautiful soprano part I’ve ever sang. 25 years later and I still remember almost all of it note for note. Heavenly!

Mr. Shaw was a wizard. This is (still) not a professional choir or chorus. I am not on this recording, but I did get to perform it years later under him. This chorus is comprised of amateurs; teachers, waiters and waitresses, police officers. No "professional" singers. Mr. Shaw's belief was that if you are doing it for the money, then your heart is not behind the music. So we showed up every Monday for a three-hour rehearsal, and then all week during performance/recording weeks. My last year with them I used to drive from Nashville to Atlanta, do the rehearsal, and then drive home. It was a long day!... And I would not have missed a second! Mr. Shaw was an obviously brilliant orchestral conductor, but his attention to choral music, his love, was brilliant! He could take a group of roughly 225 people and get them to work as an instrument. He could make us shape phrases, as you can hear here, in ways that most conductors simply can't. What an experience and learning experience working with him.

Years back, I discovered a vinyl record of this composition, and played it to my four-year-old son, who sat entranced. At 8, it was Bizet's Carmen. The energy of these classics is as timeless as a child's smile.

I performed this set at Carnegie Hall with about 200 other people in May of 2016 an it was the greatest performance o my life.

"May you be welcomed into Paradise by the angels; your coming attended by the holy throng of the martyrs as you enter the holy city Jerusalem. May a choir of angels greet you and with Lazarus, once a beggar, may you have eternal rest". Dear God, I hope to hear this when I leave this world.

Listening to this gorgeous music and singing along for my sister who died yesterday. I love this requiem especially for the "In paradisium".

Yesterday died my father. Today I wanted to listen this requiem.

I first heard this when I was 26 back living at home after a failed marriage with my 18 month old daughter. For the first time I felt I understood salvation through art and beauty, consolation and delight in the darkest times. Thank you x

The depth of this requiem is immeasurable,and unimaginable

I like to play the Libera Me movement loudly in my car and sing along with it when I'm driving. I get a few strange looks from other drivers, but I love being surrounded by this great piece of music and my car has a great sound system.

I always come to Faure's Requiem when I am feeling sad or stressed. It lifts my spirits as nothing else can