This highly virtuosic 15-minute work from 1967 is based on Smalley’s own Missa Brevis. Material from that earlier work is deliberately pulverised and disintegrated, before being, in the composer’s on words ‘reformed into something altogether more expressionistic and violent’. The work unfolds in 10 highly differentiated sections, including a series of highly decorated retrograde canons and quotations from Webern’s Cantata No. 2 op. 31 and Smalley&r...