Performer: Richard Pearce

Four excellent soloists played a major part in the evening’s success, marking the 50th anniversary of the Collegium Musicum of London. 

The ultimate musical misnomer, Rossini's last major work is beautifully sung in the wonderful surroundings of the Chapel of the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich.

That Rossini was a wag. The master of the bon mot, you suspect he probably had his tongue firmly in his cheek when he entitled his 1864 choral work the Petite Messe Solenelle.