Margaret Field-Hyde (soprano)
Jennifer Vyvyan (soprano)
Mary Jarred (contralto)
BBC Midland Chorus
(women's voices)
Philip Moore (organ)
BBC Midland Orchestra
(Leader, Frank Thomas )
Conductor, Leo Wurmser
Michael Haydn , who was five years younger than his famous brotiher Josephspent the greater part of his life at Salzburg, where he was director of music to the Archbisihop. In this capacity he had dealings with Mozart and taugiht composition to Weber. Joseph Haydn is said to have declared that his brother's church music was superior to his own in earnestness, severity of style, and sustained power. Among his works are twenty-four Masses. The one io be performed tonight is for treble voices and altos (in three parts), string orchestra (witthout viotas), and organ; it beam the date 1777. H. R.