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Georges Pretre

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The world heritage site was filled with the magnificent and majestic Faur Requiem and Poulenc, his specialty.Georges Prtre’s popularity in Japan broke out in his later years. He recorded operas with Maria Callas and a series of highly acclaimed Poulenc recordings, but he was never blessed with a large number of recordings. The masterpiece Faur Requiem was also not recorded for commercial purposes, but the 2007 live recording with the Deutsche Symphonieorchester Berlin (hereinafter referred to as “Berlin disc”) appeared in 2010 and quenched the thirst of fans. This time, the live performance was held in 1997 at the cathedral in Speyer, a city in southwestern Germany. Completed in 1061 at the height of the Holy Roman Empire, the cathedral is one of the largest Romanesque churches in the world and is registered as a World Heritage site. Its enormous space and long reverberations seem to have hel