Led by its Director Matthew Martin, The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge, joins forces with the Academy of Ancient Music in Michael Haydn’s rarely heard masterpieces: the Requiem and Missa Sancti Hieronymi.

Unjustly neglected, Joseph Haydn’s younger brother was a powerful influence on the young Mozart. The Requiem is a masterpiece that combines complex colourful textures and forms with imaginative orchestration and vocal writing. It is thought that Haydn's Requiem formed the prototype for Mozart's own better known masterpiece. In contrast, the later Missa Sancti Hieronymi is lighter and more optimistic. Unusually scored for oboes, bassoons, trombones and continuo (with no upper strings), it exudes transparency and joyful energy. This recording will undoubtedly put these neglected works back into mainstream repertoire and showcase the venerable choral tradition at Caius College.