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"Dies Irae": In Flanders Fields.
From The Album: "Eternal Light: A Requiem (2008)".
Composer: Howard Goodall.
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Howard Goodall: Eternal Light: A Requiem ℗ 2008 Warner Classics, Warner Music UK Ltd. Baritone Vocals: Christopher Maltman Choir: Choir of Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford Conductor: Stephen Darlington Orchestra: London Musici Producer: Howard Goodall Producer: Simon Kiln Soprano Vocals: Natasha Marsh Tenor Vocals: Alfie Boe Composer: Howard Goodall.
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Dies Irae ("Day of Wrath") is a Latin Hymn attributed to either Thomas of Celano of The Franciscans (1200 – 1265) or to Latino Malabranca Orsini (+ 1294), Lector at The Dominican Studium, at Santa Sabina, the forerunner of The Pontifical University of Saint Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum in Rome.
The Hymn dates from at least the 13th-Century, though it is possible that it is much older, with some sources ascribing its origin to Saint Gregory the Great (+ 604 A.D.), Saint Bernard of Clairvaux (1090–1153), or Saint Bonaventure (1221–1274).
It is a Medieval Latin Poem characterised by its accentual stress and rhymed lines. The metre is trochaic. The Poem describes The Last Judgment Trumpet summoning Souls before The Throne of God, where The Saved will be delivered and The Unsaved cast into Eternal Flames.
The Hymn is best known from its use as a Sequence in The Requiem (Mass for The Dead, or Funeral Mass). An English version is found in various Anglican Communion Service Books. The melody is one of the most quoted in musical literature, appearing in the works of many composers.
It is a Medieval Latin Poem characterised by its accentual stress and rhymed lines. The metre is trochaic. The Poem describes The Last Judgment Trumpet summoning Souls before The Throne of God, where The Saved will be delivered and The Unsaved cast into Eternal Flames.
The Hymn is best known from its use as a Sequence in The Requiem (Mass for The Dead, or Funeral Mass). An English version is found in various Anglican Communion Service Books. The melody is one of the most quoted in musical literature, appearing in the works of many composers.
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In Flanders Fields.
By: JOHN MCCRAE
In Flanders fields, the poppies blow
Between the Crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are The Dead. Short days ago,
We lived, felt Dawn, saw Sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie,
In Flanders fields.
Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.
