Scoring: Soli SATB, Coro SATB, 2 Ob, 2 Fg, [2 Cor], 2 Tr, 3 Trb, Timp, 2 Vl, Va, Vc, Cb, Org

Anyone who is familiar with Bruckner’s symphonies and great masses will probably be astonished upon hearing his Missa solemnis of 1854: can the tradition of the Viennese classics still be so clearly evident in a work by Bruckner? And yet, isn’t it also possible to hear much of Bruckner’s later style?

With this edition, the earliest of Bruckner’s orchestral masses is now available as an Urtext editi...