This is a selection from a complete set of Haydn masses recorded over several years by the REBEL Baroque Orchestra (which is named after French composer Jean-Féry Rebel and nowhere offers a justification for shouting their name in all caps), along with the Trinity Choir from the New York church of the same name. The music-making has been consistently strong over the entire set, but the individual albums may make good choices for buyers wanting to sample the large range of interpretations of Haydn's mass settings. Here, as ...
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This is a selection from a complete set of Haydn masses recorded over several years by the REBEL Baroque Orchestra (which is named after French composer Jean-Féry Rebel and nowhere offers a justification for shouting their name in all caps), along with the Trinity Choir from the New York church of the same name. The music-making has been consistently strong over the entire set, but the individual albums may make good choices for buyers wanting to sample the large range of interpretations of Haydn's mass settings. Here, as in several other of the individual releases, an early Haydn mass setting is paired with one of the six large and festive late pieces that have always been central to the Haydn repertory. The setting of the Mass in G major, Hob. 22/6, of 1772, known as the Nikolaimesse and composed for the name day of Haydn's patron Nicolaus Esterházy, shows off the virtues of conductor J. Owen Burdick's approach. Burdick has managed a nice fusion of the semi-professional American church choir sound...
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