Charles Gounod's Messe brève no. 2 pour les sociétés chorales (G-Dur) for Male Choir.This Mass is undoubtedly one of the best - if not the very best - of Gounod's works in this class. Its quality is emphasized by the fact that it has been the subject of more arrangements than any other among his shorter masses some of the arrangements having been publisher several decades after the appearance of the first edition.

Heinrich Heine was a favorite poet for Mendelssohn. In Wasserfahrt or Waterway in English Heine provides a pictorial poetry that Mendelssohn seizes upon. Throughout the short piece the listener senses the insistent rocking of the boat and slapping of the water. It's great to have another masterwork available for male singers.