Faure's lullaby of death

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Today we are presenting an analysis of an extraordinary passage from the Agnus Dei from Faure’s Requiem mass. The central section of the movement moves away from the diatonic tonality of the A section and towards an extended kind of tonality which can be best described in terms of Neo-Riemannian transformations.
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Gabriel Faure (1845-1924)
Requiem, Op. 48 - Movement V. Agnus Dei
Performed by Harry Christophers; The Sixteen, Academy of St. Martin in the Fields
Video made by MomentsMusicaux.