Donald Scarinci: >I have Bach's Mass in B Minor by Robert Shaw and the Atlanta Symphony >Orchestra and Chamber Chorus on the Telarc label. Any thoughts on this >piece? Yeah. It's great. Shaw's happens to be one of my favorite recordings - though not as favorite as the one he did way back when for RCA with the Robert Shaw Chorale. I especially like the way he uses, in effect, three vocal ensembles: the soloists, the massed group, and the "concertato" choir. This gets a gorgeous variety of choral sound and it sets off structure besides. There are those who prefer a more "monumental" b-minor, but not me. Those recordings tend to remind me of elephants trying to make it through bogs. To me, Bach dances, even here. Shakin' awesome goo. Steve Schwartz