This live performance under Rolf Beck finds the Schleswig-Holstein Festival Chor Lubeck making some delicious sounds at times, ably supported by the Ensemble Orchestral de Paris, but there is not much that sticks for long in the memory. Baritone David Wilson-Johnson is in typically fine voice...The inclusion of Cantique de Jean Racine and a couple of motets is welcome.

his reading is characterised by extreme restraint, greatly assisted by the softly comfortable acoustic of Rendsburg's Christkirche...but this performance is both expansive (as in the Introit) and extremely intimate (as in a deliciously affectionate Agnus Dei)...Wilson-Johnson mingles majesty with gracefulness while Chiyuki Okamura produces a most enchanting performance of the "Pie Jesu".

[Wilson-Johnson's] Libera me' is noble and well projected...At its best - the pure soprano line at the start of the 'In Paradisum', for instance - Rolf Beck conducts a straightforward performance that has some admirable moments in which he teases out orchestral details, as at the climax of the Agnus Dei, where the horns sound splendid.