About Faure I would like to know what registrations do you recommend.
Unfortunately, I only have a CD.  Bernstein directs it and I do not like
this conductor at all.  I think it is the only CD I have with him.  He
directs the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  In the same CD I have the
Chichester Psalms.  I would like to buy immediately another CD.  I really
like Faure.  What registrations do you recommend?

Now the philosophical-esthetical question is:  to me, this is the only
"French" Requiem that touches me!  Is Faure the only one who composed a
Requiem with a "Catholic" sensitivity? All the other requiem are remarkably
"protestant".  Verdi one is a piece quite different from all the others.

On the other hand, Faure's Requiem is so "modern", so contemporary.  And
that is remarkable:  to write a Requiem with "modern" musical features.

Francisco Barbosa <[log in to unmask]>