This musical masterpiece brings forth the depth of human suffering, especially as experienced by those who died in the Holocaust.

Samuel Barber's timeless Adagio for Strings, Op. 11, is here performed at the Summer Night Concert in 2019.

Henry Purcell's Funeral Sentences was performed at the funeral of Queen Mary II in 1695.

Cristóbal de Morales (c. 1500 – 1553) was a Spanish composer of the Renaissance. The Missa pro Defunctis is thought to be his last work.

In Paradisum was composed in 2020 to honor the victims of the coronavirus and the thousands of families left behind.

The Mozart Requiem is one of the gems of choral music. Hear a stirring rendition of the Dies Irae movement directed by Fr. Scott A. Haynes.

This performance of Duruflé’s beautiful setting is dedicated to Nova Scotians and all Canadians who have lost their lives to Covid.

When Camille Saint-Saëns heard this music, he told Fauré: “Just as Mozart’s is the only ‘Ave verum corpus’, this is the only ‘Pie Jesu.’”

The Messa da Requiem by Giuseppe Verdi was composed in memory of Alessandro Manzoni, an Italian poet and novelist whom Verdi admired.

Villette based his music on Gregorian chant, which he had sung as a child, and combined it with the exotic textures of Poulenc and Messiaen.

Hear the Netherlands Chamber Choir sing in a live performance of the stunning Mass for Double Choir of Frank Martin.

Noel Edison directs the Choir of St John's, Elora, singing Healey Willan's Marian Motet, I Beheld her Beautiful as a Dove, HWC 312.

The Winchester College Quiristers & soloist Harry Sever sing "Rejoice, the Lord is King!" by Malcolm Archer on "Songs of Praise" (BBC).

Written shortly before the Russian revolution, this excerpt from the "Vespers" of Rachmaninoff is a sublime prayer to the Virgin Mary.

Vaughan Williams came to associate Tallis's theme with John Bunyan's Christian allegory, "The Pilgrim's Progress."

If you would comfort me, sing me a lullaby...If you would mourn me and bring me to God, sing me to heaven!

O clap your hands is a motet by Ralph Vaughan Williams. This anthem is a setting of verses from Psalm 47 in 1920 for choir, brass and organ.

The hymn Marian "Ave Maris Stella" is traditionally been attributed to St. Bernard of Clairvaux. This setting of Otto Olsson is breathtaking

Jenkins' "Benedictus" is from "The Armed Man: A Mass for Peace." The text is from the Roman Mass: "Benedictus qui venit in nomine Domini."

The Estonian composer Arvo Pärt's beautiful setting of the Canticle of Simeon, "Nunc Dimittis," places us in the Temple of the Lord.