Francisco Barbosa writes:

>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.

Not sure if it counts, because it's not really a Requiem but it is a
celbratory mass for a dead woman -- Paul Paray's Mass for St.  Joan --
well worth hearing ------- when I can find the box the disc is in!!

Tim Mahon
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