Faure's Requiem

The whole work is agonizingly sad and beautiful----most especially the soprano solo movement "Pie Jesu", which, to my mind, could be the theme music for the whole day! I visited the cathedral of St. John the Divine four days after 9/11, and as we walked in, this was being played on the organ---incredibly moving, as it has been for me everytime I have heard (and even once, performed in) it.

Harold Zapolsky