Fifty Shades of Grey: The Classical Album - Fauré, In Paradisum from 'Requiem' (15x50)
Going track-by-track, in 50 words or less, through all 15 of E.L. James' favorite classical music.
Today...Fauré, "In Paradisum" from Requiem, Op. 48.
One of the more happier settings for dead souls in the Western canon, Fauré literally had no one in mind while writing. E.L. James, of course, doesn't have his luxury. The opening Latin line here, "May angels lead you to paradise," says more about James than that first edition of Tess of the d'Urbervilles does Christian. Stephen Cleobury leads a resplendent Choir of King's College, Cambridge.