Monteverdi, Scarlatti and Verdi -all three were opera composers. Their letters very clearly show this was how they saw themselves. How fortunate then that they also turned their hand to church music!... more

Franz Schubert's most known Mass was written in 1827, his penultimate year, at the same time as "Die Winterreise". As so often with songs that transcend their texts, here too he succeeded in creating... more