Vocal funeral music

Barry Macdonald, presenter of a classical music programme on Rocket FM selects ten vocal pieces that are suitable for a funeral ceremony.

Faure: Requiem -  Pie Jesu

Schubert: Ave Maria

Puccini: Turandot - Nessun Dorma

Richard Strauss:

The 4 Last Songs – 4th song: Im Abendrot

Blow the Wind Southerly - Traditional arr. Whittaker

Tavener: Song for Athene

Allegri: Miserere

Elgar: Dream of Gerontius -  The Angel’s Farewell

Wagner: Tristan and Isolde -  Liebestod (“Mild und leise wie er lachelt”)

Dvorak: Rusalka – “Song to the Moon”