Haydn Missa Sancti Nicolai

Missa Sancti Nicolai is the only early Mass of Joseph Haydn  that can be directly connected to the Esterházy court. It was most likely intended for the Feast of Saint Nicholas on December 6, 1772, which was also the name day of Kapellmeister Haydn’s employer Prince Nicolaus I Esterházy. The mass is quintessentially Haydn in its energy, tunefullness and infectious joy. Not one to be missed.

Dvorak Mass in D 

The Mass was first performed in September 1887. Dvorak wrote it for the limited resources available to him in the Czech countryside and in doing so has created '... the specific atmosphere of the Czech countryside: not a stately ritual ceremony, as befitting the Prague Metropolitan cathedral, or the concentrated sublime contemplation of a monastic setting, but the spirit of a smiling, pleasant region of hills and woods and little baroque churches with folk-art decoration, the expression of the wisdom and security of his native land'