[2] The cover of the CD release, designed under the art direction of Hartmut Pfeiffer, features Norbert Attard's painting "Mihrab XIV", courtesy of CCA Galleries.

[3] He began by reminding his readers that if current scholarship was to be believed, Mozart had written his festive, mostly C major, trumpet-and-drum flavoured Waisenhaus-Messe when he was only twelve years old.

[5] Abbado's disc, he wrote, had "superlative women soloists - Gundula Janowitz at her sweetest and most graceful, Frederica von Stade warm and musicianly as always".

But Celia Linsley, if not blessed with Janowitz's tonal beauty, sang with grace and charm; Werner Hollweg summoned up intensity when required; and Walton Grönroos seemed more at home in the Mass's idiom than Moll did.

Although Creed's performance was not as glossy as Abbado's, his sprightlier conducting and Capriccio's inclusion of some worthwhile fill-up items made his disc marginally the more enticing.

[6] Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Missa solemnis in C minor, K. 139 (47a), Waisenhaus-Messe (Vienna, 1768) I Kyrie, Adagio II Gloria, Allegro III Credo, Allegro IV Sanctus, Adagio V Agnus Dei, Andante In 1976, Deutsche Grammophon released the album on LP (catalogue number 2530 777) with notes and an insert providing the text of the Mass and translations.