Pierre de la Rue: Masses The Sound and the Fury

• Pierre De La Rue (1452 - 1518): Missa pascale à 5:
• 1 Missa pascale à 5: I. Kyrie 04:41
• 2 Missa pascale à 5: II. Gloria 06:51
• 3 Missa pascale à 5: III. Credo 09:13
• 4 Missa pascale à 5: IV. Sanctus 08:45
• 5 Missa pascale à 5: V. Agnus Dei 04:06
• Missa Ista est speciosa à 5:
• 6 Missa Ista est speciosa à 5: I. Kyrie 04:43
• 7 Missa Ista est speciosa à 5: II. Gloria 06:39
• 8 Missa Ista est speciosa à 5: III. Credo 08:25
• 9 Missa Ista est speciosa à 5: IV. Sanctus 09:17
• 10 Missa Ista est speciosa à 5: V. Agnus Dei 06:01
• Missa L'homme armé à 4:
• 11 Missa L'homme armé à 4: I. Kyrie 03:26
• 12 Missa L'homme armé à 4: II. Gloria 05:22
• 13 Missa L'homme armé à 4: III. Credo 09:25
• 14 Missa L'homme armé à 4: IV. Sanctus 07:28
• 15 Missa L'homme armé à 4: V. Agnus Dei 05:37
• Missa pro fidelibus defunctis:
• 16 Missa pro fidelibus defunctis: I. Introitus 03:42
• 17 Missa pro fidelibus defunctis: II. Kyrie 02:41
• 18 Missa pro fidelibus defunctis: III. Tractus 04:19
• 19 Missa pro fidelibus defunctis: IV. Offertorium 05:34
• 20 Missa pro fidelibus defunctis: V. Sanctus 04:23
• 21 Missa pro fidelibus defunctis: VI. Agnus Dei 03:32
• 22 Missa pro fidelibus defunctis: VII. Communio 03:13
• Total Runtime 02:07:23

Info for Pierre de la Rue: Masses

For the upcoming 500th anniversary of the death of the great Franco-Flemish composer Pierre de la Rue (around 1460-1518), the vocal ensemble The Sound and the Fury, which specializes in early music, has recorded a selection of the composer’s artistic masses for the label FRA BERNARDO, which impressively reflect the high standard at the court of the music-loving and music-savvy Margaret of Austria. The Pierre de la Rue masses on this recording have one thing in common: they are all based on monadic models, thus in keeping with the most traditional of cyclic mass composition models, the cantus firmus mass. Yet in their individual construction they could not be more different. Two of these masses employ just one single cantus firmus. The one based on the secular melody L’Homme Arme is the earliest of them all. L’Homme Arme was the most common secular cantus firmus of all and composers who wrote a mass based on it were aware of competing with their contemporaries. La Rue’s work is no exception and displays an exuberant, almost unashamed virtuosity which only a young and extremely self-confident composer is capable of producing.

Alessandro Carmignani, countertenor
John Potter, tenor
Christian Wegmann, tenor
Christian M. Schmidt, bass
Wilhelm Schwinghammer, bass

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