Haydn: Masses, Vol. 6 / Burdick, Glover, Rebel, Trinity Choir

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Naxos
Release Date
December 14, 2010
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    Featuring
    • COMPOSER
      HAYDN, JOSEPH
    • ORCHESTRA / ENSEMBLE
      Trinity Choir, Rebel Baroque Orchestra
    • PERFORMER
      Burdick, Glover, Hoyt, Liston, Lippold, Palmer, Faia, Sollek
    Product Details
    • RELEASE DATE
      December 14, 2010
    • UPC
      747313212675
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      8572126
    • LABEL
      Naxos
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
    Works
    1. Kyrie

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Ann Hoyt, Julie Liston

      Conductor: Owen Burdick

    2. Gloria

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Ann Hoyt, Julie Liston, Richard Lippold

      Conductor: Owen Burdick

    3. Credo

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Richard Lippold

      Conductor: Owen Burdick

    4. Sanctus

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Ann Hoyt, Julie Liston

      Conductor: Owen Burdick

    5. Benedictus

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Ann Hoyt, Julie Liston

      Conductor: Owen Burdick

    6. Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Conductor: Owen Burdick

    7. Agnus Dei: Dona nobis pacem

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Ann Hoyt, Julie Liston

      Conductor: Owen Burdick

    8. Kyrie

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Nacole Palmer, Kirsten Sollek, Daniel Mutlu, Andrew Nolen

      Conductor: Jane Glover

    9. Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Nacole Palmer

      Conductor: Jane Glover

    10. Gloria: Gratias agimus tibi

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Nacole Palmer, Kirsten Sollek, Daniel Mutlu, Andrew Nolen

      Conductor: Jane Glover

    11. Gloria: Quoniam tu solus sanctus

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Nacole Palmer, Kirsten Sollek, Daniel Mutlu, Andrew Nolen

      Conductor: Jane Glover

    12. Credo: Credo in unum Deum

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Daniel Mutlu, Andrew Nolen

      Conductor: Jane Glover

    13. Credo: Et incarnatus est

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Nacole Palmer, Kirsten Sollek, Daniel Mutlu, Andrew Nolen

      Conductor: Jane Glover

    14. Credo: Et resurrexit

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Conductor: Jane Glover

    15. Credo: Et vitam venturi

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Nacole Palmer, Nina Faia, Kirsten Sollek, Matthew Hensrud, Daniel Mutlu, Andrew Nolen

      Conductor: Jane Glover

    16. Sanctus

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Nacole Palmer, Kirsten Sollek, Daniel Mutlu, Andrew Nolen

      Conductor: Jane Glover

    17. Benedictus

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Nacole Palmer, Kirsten Sollek, Daniel Mutlu, Andrew Nolen

      Conductor: Jane Glover

    18. Agnus Dei: Agnus Dei

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Nacole Palmer, Kirsten Sollek, Daniel Mutlu, Andrew Nolen

      Conductor: Jane Glover

    19. Agnus Dei: Dona nobis pacem

      Composer: Franz Joseph Haydn

      Ensemble: New York Trinity Church Choir, REBEL Baroque Orchestra

      Performer: Nacole Palmer, Kirsten Sollek, Daniel Mutlu, Andrew Nolen

      Conductor: Jane Glover


Exceptionally elegant performances from a first rate band of musicians.

Although it is for his instrumental music, primarily symphonies, string quartets and works for solo piano that Josef Haydn is most known, he was quite given to writing for voices and left behind a sizeable output of operas, twelve authenticated masses and numerous other settings of sacred texts for choir, soloists and orchestra. This program gives us his first and last words in the mass genre, one by an exuberant boy of seventeen the other by a tired and weary old man, although one could never discern the composer’s fatigue by listening to the music.

The Missa Brevis in F is a little gem of economy, with Haydn sailing through the wordy Credo in under three minutes, a feat he accomplished by stacking phrases of the text on top of one another and distributing them throughout the voice parts. The unusual scoring for only two solo voices, both sopranos might have been a vehicle for he and his brother Michael, though it does stretch belief a bit to think of a seventeen year old with an unchanged voice.

The Harmoniemesse is one of Haydn’s final works, written for the birthday celebrations of the Esterhazy Princess in 1802. The composer soon took his leave of the Esterhazy family after decades of service and although he lived another seven years, he did little composing after this period. There is no evidence in this joyful and exuberant mass that Haydn was at all ill. In fact, his later masses have been criticized over the years for their joyous optimism, and sometimes overly upbeat settings of the more reflective and serious parts of the texts. Be that as it may, this is a masterpiece, beautifully augmented by the full complement of wind instruments that give the mass its nickname of “harmonie.”

These are performances of divinely understated elegance. Singing from the choir is dead in tune and beautifully balanced. Phrases are splendidly shaped and tempo choices are spot on. The Trinity Choir is full of fine soloists, and there is some magnificent singing from sopranos Ann Hoyt and Julie Liston is the Missa Brevis. The Rebel Baroque Orchestra is a tight band of precision players. The clarity of their playing, especially in fast passages is without flaw. The one and only defect in this production is the lack of texts and translations in the booklet. The program notes are informative and interesting and not loaded with blow by blow descriptions of the music.

These are performances of almost text-book perfection and will be a delight to any lover of choral music. With really nothing to criticize, I can say nothing more but go add this fine recording to your library.

-- Kevin Sutton, MusicWeb International