Description
LIBERA ME
for mixed choir (4 voices), organ and/or brass ad libitum
(1992)
(N.M.O. 13952A / Score)
LIBERA ME for mixed choir (4 voices), organ and/or brass ad libitum was composed in 1992 Inspired by ‘Libera Me’, a Roman Catholic psalm which is sung as a prayer for the dead:
Líbera me, Dómine, de morte ætérna,
in die illa treménda:
Quando cœli movéndi sunt et terra.
Dum véneris iudicáre sǽculum per ignem.
Tremens factus sum ego, et tímeo, dum discússio vénerit, atque ventúra ira. Dies illa, dies iræ, calamitátis et misériæ, dies magna et amára valde.
Duration: ca. 4 minutes