About This Song
About "Requiem in D Minor, Op. 48: VI. Libera me" by John Rutter
The Libera me is a trembling plea for deliverance, Rutter drawing out Fauré's dark undertow. Choral voices quake like candle flames in a crypt, the 'dies illa' looming. Yet the terror is held in velvet—a dread so beautiful it almost comforts.