Gramophone Magazine
August 2007
“A legend on Legends - the Mass is a moving testament to a great conductor. …there is much here to admire: the breadth of the phrasing, the weight and sense of the music's importance he draws from the brass, the exquisitely balanced textures in the Agnus Dei and the Sanctus... the care for the chorus's role in the Credo, with their soft intonation &Veruju& set against splendid assertions from Robert Tear that seem to brook no dissent.”