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 [log in to unmask]