Jacobs penetrates to the heart of the music with his customary insight and intelligence, though not without adding an enigma or two of his own…Jacobs is superb not only at communicating the music’s visceral excitement, but also at plumbing its emotional depths – not least in his deeply moving account of the Miserere.

One of the recording’s remarkable qualities – there are a few – is the telling detail of the textual response to a Mass-setting in which every word matters.

Jacobs’s fresh, often febrile Missa has the same sense of the ink still being wet on the page that made François-Xavier Roth’s 2020 recording of the Fifth Symphony such a Presto favourite: there’s an exciting rawness (particularly in the lower regions) to the orchestral sound when required, though no rough edges whatsoever from the RIAS Kammerchor, who surmount Beethoven’s formidable technical challenges with exhilarating aplomb.