Francisco Barbosa writes:

>Now the philosophical-esthetical question is: to me, this is the only
>"French" Requiem that touches me!

What about Berlioz's??. (OK,  tastes are tastes).

>Is Faure the only one who composed a Requiem with a "Catholic"
>sensitivity? All the other requiem are remarkably "protestant".

I would like you to describe your view of "Catholic sensitivity".  Perhaps
I feel it in a quite different way than you:  in my opinion Faure's Requiem
is perhaps the more "protestant" of catholic Requiem...+ (plural, whatever
might it be).

>Verdi one is a piece quite different from all the others.

Curious. I find Verdi's Requiem much more "Catholic" than Faure's.

Pablo Massa
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