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The song “Pie Jesu” is taken from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Requiem”

Pie Jesu is a motet (Choral musical composition) derived from the final couplet of the Dies Irae and often included in musical settings of the Requiem Mass. The settings of the Requiem Mass by Luigi Cherubini, Gabriel Fauré, Maurice Duruflé, John Rutter, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Fredrik Sixten include a Pie Jesu as an independent movement. Of all these, by far the best known is the Pie Jesu from Fauré’s Requiem; Camille Saint-Saëns said of it, “just as Mozart’s is the only Ave verum corpus, this is the only Pie Jesu”. (Steinberg, Michael. “Gabriel Fauré: Requiem, Op. 48.” Choral Masterworks: A Listener’s Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 131–137)

The version from Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Requiem has gained popularity especially in the world of popular music as a separate song. There are versions of it by Haley Westenra, Charlotte Church, Becky Gulsvig and Gaelen Gilliland of “Legally Blonde: The Musical”, and others.

Sarah Brightman’s version follows Webber’s Requiem settings including the Agnus Dei (Which otherwise should be a totally different piece) as a second verse.

The Latin words “Pie Jesu” mean “Pious Jesus”, though they are often translated Gracious Jesus, or Sweet Jesus. Devoted Jesus is a very correct rendering.
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  • ActiveInfidel

    Yeah - OK-ish I s'pose..............

    last month

  • Adams_Eve

    *sigh

    March 2012

  • cisconinja

    Magnificent

    January 2012

  • visitors

    beautiful!

    January 2012

  • sol1012

    Maravilloso como todo lo que ella interpreta.

    December 2011

  • ROLANDOBAVIERA

    beautiful! voice and the person singing the beautiful song.

    December 2011

  • iketut2009

    mucho belo

    December 2011

  • Lasko2012

    Sublime éxtasis de la voz humana, un canto al éter celestial de los ángeles.

    December 2011

  • n17man

    Extraordinary voice. Beautiful, moving. One of my favourites.

    November 2011

  • jeffyskate

    Pie Jesu from Fauré's Requiem - Fauré a great french composer worth getting to know if you don't already...

    August 2011

  • isaiahgallop

    brillante, così bella

    August 2011

  • juliepnjcf

    what a wonderful voice, a wonderful song.

    January 2011

  • xoAlyssHeartxo

    Such a beautiful soprano!

    December 2010

  • savethewolfs

    EWWWWWW.... CLASSICAL

    November 2010

  • jtc670

    Sarah, oh so beautiful!!!

    November 2010

  • pdc_canarias

    x

    October 2010

  • prokoschnov

    still a pleasure to listen to its title sang by such a pure voice

    September 2010

  • gungh0

    goosebumps. [2]

    September 2010

  • RunAwayFromHere

    goosebumps.

    September 2010

  • dons61

    what a superb voice i could listen to this again @ again !!

    August 2010
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