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Basingstoke Choral Society
NELSON MASS: Joseph Haydn REQUIEM: Michael Haydn Basingstoke Choral Society Conductor Jordan Theis Composed in 1798 at a time of personal triumph, Joseph Haydn’s Missa in Angustiis, better known as the Nelson Mass, stands as one of the most thrilling and powerful achievements of the choral repertoire. Written during a period of uncertainty as Napoleon Bonaparte’s armies swept across Europe, the work’s Latin title translates as “Mass for Troubled Times,” reflecting both the anxieties of the age a