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Affronted, Brock purloins a ticket to heaven instead. But paradise makes him uncomfortable, despite the music (Fauré's Requiem, Beethoven's Ninth), the soaring entrance hall and the "little mayonnaise concoctions" served by white-robed nuns. Brock gladly boards a plane for his assigned place in hell and his fate: to fornicate forever...
...Fauré: Requiem and Pavane (Elly Ameling, soprano; Bernard Kruysen, baritone; Daniel Chorzempa. organ; The Netherlands Radio Chorus; Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Jean Fournet, conductor; Philips; $7.98). Orchestra and chorus are fully integrated in a crystalline performance of this seven-part choral work by a romantic Frenchman who admired classic Greek proportion. The purity of Ameling's soprano makes the prayer Pie Jesu an expression of faith as well as of grief. The recorded sound suggests a church rather than a studio, which is particularly effective in the solemn Pavane...
...tradition of shrugging off sexual improprieties with an attitude of amused tolerance. Former President Georges Pompidou managed to survive gossip that his high-spirited wife took more than a cultural interest in the fun-loving young artists of the Saint-Tropez jet set. Third Republic President Félix Fauré achieved a kind of instant canonization in 1899, when it was learned that he died performing his amorous arts in a ground-floor room at the Elysée. The liaison amoureuse, in fact, is as venerable and popular an institution in Paris as the Comédie Fran...
...PETER FAUR...
...year before he died, the sinuous lines of the violin float on air while the piano furnishes ground swells of sound. Debussy's directions for the second movement-"fantastic and light"-set the entire mood for French Violinist Christian Ferras and Pianist Pierre Barbizet. They also play Fauré's Second Violin Sonata, written like Debussy's in 1917 and likewise impressionist in manner, but more restrained...