Trinity:Rebel:Burdick:Glover - Haydn: M Brevis Joannis

This eighth and final volume of Naxos's acclaimed survey of Haydn's Masses contrasts the intimately scaled Little Organ Mass with the symphonically conceived Mass in B flat major, nicknamed Theresienmesse after Marie Therese (wife of Emperor Francis II and soprano soloist in the first performances of The Creation (8.557380-81) and The Seasons (8.557600-01)). The Great Organ Mass is available on 8.572125 as well as in the 8-CD boxed set of the Complete Haydn Masses (8.508009): 'Bravo!' (Early Music America); '...monumental recording... the first-ever collection of the complete Haydn Masses performed on period instruments.' (Baker & Taylor CD Hotlist)