His Requiem pour la paix contains:
01. Requiem (03:41)
02. Absolve (02:06)
03. Dies irae (04:57)
04. Recordare (02:16)
05. Ingemisco (03:41)
06. Domine (04:09)
07. Sanctus (04:30)
08. Agnus Dei (02:30)
09. Lux aeterna (02:13)
10. Libera me (07:08)
Requiem pour la paix (1945), the full title: Requiem pour la paix a tous les Martyrs de la Resistance et a tous ceux qui sont morts pour la France. Tomasi was a conductor, but it was composing that meant the most to him and he established himself with such works as Cymos, Tam-Tam, and Vocero. Among his major works are the Requiem pour la paix and the Concerto pour guitare et orchestra, a la memoire d'un poete assassine ('in memory of Federico Garcia Lorca'). Many of his other compositions, such as the Chant pour le Viet-Nam ('Song for Vietnam'), are based on-European subjects.
The idiom of the Requiem is pellucid, tonal, pointillistic, suffused in light, singable, touching - a truly lovely work touched off by the wellsprings of those who had died in the struggle for freedom - the heroes of the resistance, and all those who had died for France. It belongs to that select band of works that trace a lineage to the Fauré Requiem and can be counted in company with Paul Paray's St Joan Mass. The Requiem is meshed together by a number of recurrent gestures: a brusque summonsing from the brass (rather like Kenneth Alwyn's 633 Squadron), a supplicatory solo violin and a Ravelian swooning. The work was premiered in Paris in the year after the liberation and in the presence of General de Gaulle.