Petite Messe Solennelle
Rossini came out of his Parisian retirement to write this cheerful and tuneful setting of the Mass. We also present works by Delius and Fauré, who lived in Paris during their lives, whilst Morten Lauridsen’s Nocturnes set one of Rilke’s French poems along with one each by the Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and the American James Agee.