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])