Mozart's Requiem, Lisette Oropesa / Cyrille Dubois

Mozart and Poulenc: these two go well together. Moreover, one can find Mozartian virtues in Francis Poulenc's music, in its relationship to faith, its quest for light and its refusal of pathos; the Frenchman placed Mozart's "divine purity" above all else, readily quoting this phrase from ETA Hoffman to sum up his feeling: "it is to the depths of the mysterious kingdom that Mozart leads us; love and melancholy sing in the graceful voices of spirit...