Douglas J Fisher wrote:

>I see that there is a new recording on the ASV label of the Puccini
>Requiem and the Janacek Mass in E Flat by The Choir of Gonville and Caius
>College, Cambridge.  Has anyone heard this recording, and if so what are
>your impressions? I am especially interested in the Puccini Requiem, and
>would appreciate any comments regarding the work itself and other
>recordings which may be worthwhile to own.

I haven't heard the recording, but know of it.  It is advertised as
containing the world premiere recordings of these pieces.  The Puccini
Requiem is a little 5-page piece written in 1905 in memory of Verdi.  (I
think I remember hearing that it was scribbled down on an envelope.) You
can see the whole score at the website of the Centro studi Giacomo Puccini:

   http://www.puccini.it/scientifica/requiem1.htm

Pete Caleb ([log in to unmask])