Robert Murray, Three Choirs Festival Chorus, Philharmonia Orchestra, Edward Gardner

The vast scale of the Grande messe des morts, written in 1837, means that it is rarely performed anywhere, and even more rarely at the Three Choirs Festival, where it had to wait until 1966 for its first appearance (in Worcester). A Requiem Mass written in commemoration of the second French Revolution of 1830, it is an apocalyptic vision of the Last Judgment.