Blow the Wind: Pie Jesu is a piece by Jocelyn Pook

Jocelyn Pook

Jocelyn Pook is a British composer, pianist and viola player.- Biography :Jocelyn Pook’s distinctive style is a product of her diverse experiences in classical, commercial, and so-called world music...

 with vocals by Pook, Kathleen Ferrier

Kathleen Ferrier

Kathleen Mary Ferrier CBE was an English contralto who achieved an international reputation as a stage, concert and recording artist, with a repertoire extending from folksong and popular ballads to the classical works of Bach, Brahms, Mahler and Elgar...

 and Melanie Pappenheim

Melanie Pappenheim

Melanie Pappenheim is an English soprano singer and composer, notable for her vocal work with various British cross-disciplinary composers, with avant-garde theatre companies and on soundtracks .-Contemporary music:Pappenheim is a frequent collaborator with contemporary composer-performers Simon...

. Composed in 1994, it first appeared on the album The Best...Classical Album in the World...Ever!.

Structure

The song starts out with a one-note line with children playing in the background. Pook then sings the line "Blow the wind, southerly". Then Ferrier says "Pie Jesu Domine". Then the line goes to segue into "Dona eis requiem

Requiem

A Requiem or Requiem Mass, also known as Mass for the dead or Mass of the dead , is a Mass celebrated for the repose of the soul or souls of one or more deceased persons, using a particular form of the Roman Missal...

" whereas Pappenheim sings faster "Dona eis requiem"s. Then Ferrier, who says "Domine", then "Pie Jesu". Then Pappenheim says faster "Pie Jesu Domine"s. It finally ends with Pook saying the line "Blow the wind, southerly" which echoes throughout.

The song consists of many 16-notes.