Franz
Joseph Haydn: Mass in Time of War
(Second Mass in C, “Paukenmesse,”
“Missa in Tempore Belli”)
Program
notes by Michael Moore
(Mendelssohn Club) (no, not *that* Michael Moore!)
Program
notes by Jim Svejda (Memphis Symphony)
Program
notes plus text & translation
(San Francisco Lyric Chorus)
(also includes Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem)
CD
Recordings
John Eliot
Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, Philips
Recording
info. at Decca
Also available in 3-CD set of Haydn’s six late masses:
Recording
info. at Decca
George
Guest, St. John’s College Choir, Cambridge, & Academy of St.
Martin in the Fields, Double Decca (1965)
Recording
info. at Decca
Also available in a 7-CD set of 13 Haydn masses:
Recording
info. at Decca
Richard
Hickox, Collegium Musicum 90, Chandos (1997)
Recording
info. at Chandos
Helmuth
Rilling, Bach Collegium, Hanssler Classics
Recording
info. at Music & Vision
Bruno Weil,
Tölz Boys Choir & Tafelmusik, Sony Vivarte (1995)
Recording
info. at Sony Classical
CD Reviews
by
Gerald French at Classical Net (Gardiner)
from
Gramophone Magazine at the Boychoir Symposium (Weil)
(also a review of Bach Mass in B Minor)
by
David Hurwitz at ClassicsToday (Hickox)
by
Basil Ramsey at Music & Vision (Rilling)
by
Kenneth Sanson at Classical CD Review (Hickox)
Composer
Web Site
Classical
Music Pages
Top
of page
Ralph
Vaughan Williams: Dona nobis pacem
Program
notes by Michael Moore (Mendelssohn Club)
Program
notes plus text & translation (San Francisco Lyric Chorus)
(also includes Haydn: Mass in Time of War)
CD
Recordings
Matthew
Best, Corydon Orchestra & Singers, Hyperion (1992)
Recording
info. at Hyperion
Adrian
Boult, London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, EMI Classics (2 CDs)
Recording
info. at EMI Classics
Conductor’s pick:
Richard Hickox, London Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, EMI
Recording
info. at EMI Classics
Robert
Shaw, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra & Chorus, Telarc (1999)
Recording
info. at Telarc
Bryden Thomson, London Philharmonic Choir & Orchestra, Chandos
Recording
info. at Chandos
CD
Reviews
by
Christopher Howell at MusicWeb (Boult)
by
Steve Schwartz at Classical Net (Shaw, Boult)
by
Steve Schwartz at Classical Net (Hickox)
Composer
Web Sites
RVW
Society
Jaron Collis’s
RVW page