These recordings are drawn from the complete Haydn mass cycle released by New York's Trinity Choir and the Rebel Baroque Orchestra (the latter named for French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel, not for the Confederate States of America). The pairing has gained acclaim for small-group, historical-instrument performances of Baroque and Classical-era works intended to meet those by European ensembles on their own ground. The two masses were recorded several years apart, with different conductors and soloists, but the pairing ...
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These recordings are drawn from the complete Haydn mass cycle released by New York's Trinity Choir and the Rebel Baroque Orchestra (the latter named for French Baroque composer Jean-Féry Rebel, not for the Confederate States of America). The pairing has gained acclaim for small-group, historical-instrument performances of Baroque and Classical-era works intended to meet those by European ensembles on their own ground. The two masses were recorded several years apart, with different conductors and soloists, but the pairing must have proved irresistible to Naxos compilers for a single disc: the Missa Brevis, Hob. 22/1, of 1749 or 1750 is Haydn's first definitely attributable work aside from student exercises, while the Mass in B flat major, Hob. 22/14, "Harmoniemesse," would be his last. He later completed two movements of the String Quartet, Op. 103, and then called it quits. The scope of the creative career framed by these two works carries a kind of fascination in itself, and the Missa Brevis, of...
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