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]>