Lili Boulanger - Pie Jesu

- Composer: Marie-Juliette Olga Lili Boulanger (21 August 1893 -- 15 March 1918) - Performers: Eric Lebrun (organ), Isabelle Sabrié (soprano), Francis Pierre (harp), Raphaëlle Semezis (cello), Magali Demesse (viola), Aude Perin Dureau (violin), Olivier Charlier (violin) - Conductor: Emile Naoumoff - Year of recording: 1993 Pie Jesu for mezzo-soprano, string quartet, harp & organ, written in 1917-1918. One movement, marked “Assez lent“. French composer Lili Boulanger lived for only twenty-four years. Despite her short life, she contributed some important works to the classical repertoire, significantly in the Impressionist genre. Some of her most important pieces were her later vocal works such as her Psalms and also the last piece that she composed in her lifetime, the “Pie Jesu.“ Lili was devoted to her religion, and it seems fitting to her nature that she would write such a piece at the end of her life. This work may have been meant to be part