Haydn's late masses are as good as it gets for spiritual greatness in Catholic Austria in the early years of the nineteenth century. Mozart certainly has his moments, but he didn't finish his best spiritual works, and while there's no denying the greatness of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, his only earlier Mass is hardly in the same class as Haydn's ...
Despite his new career as a conductor of romantic and modern repertoire with the great symphony orchestras of Europe and America, John Eliot Gardiner still finds the time to make the occasional recording with the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir, the band and chorus he founded and with which he rose to fame in the '80s. In this ...
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