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Posted on March 13, 2019March 10, 2019

#ChoralMarch, March 13th, In Paradisum, Fauré (from “Requiem”) performed by Choir of Trinity College Cambridge

I first encountered this piece of music in Terence Malick’s “The Thin Red Line”, in early scenes portraying the initially pacific encounter between US military scouts and the inhabitants of…

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Posted on September 28, 2018

Aeternam – Bernat Vivancos

I have recently discovered the work of the Catalan composer Bernat Vivancos.  Here is “Aeternam” from the album “Vivancos: Requiem”. The sleeve notes describe this (a prelude to the Requiem proper)…

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