Pierre De La Rue: Masses

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Release Date: 20th Apr 2018
Catalogue No: FB1800751
Label: Fra Bernardo
Length: 2 hours 8 minutes

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Rue, P: Missa Almana

Work length35:00

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Beauty Farm
Recorded: December 2016
Recording Venue: Chartreuse de Mauerbach

Missa Almana: I. Kyrie

Track length5:11

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Missa Almana: II. Gloria

Track length6:22

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Missa Almana: III. Credo

Track length8:17

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Missa Almana: IV. Sanctus

Track length8:32

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Missa Almana: V. Agnus Dei

Track length6:38

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Rue, P: Missa de Sancto Antonio

Work length29:59

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Beauty Farm
Recorded: December 2016
Recording Venue: Chartreuse de Mauerbach

Missa de Sancto Antonio: I. Kyrie

Track length4:05

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Missa de Sancto Antonio: II. Gloria

Track length6:05

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Missa de Sancto Antonio: III. Credo

Track length7:56

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Missa de Sancto Antonio: IV. Sanctus

Track length8:16

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Missa de Sancto Antonio: V. Agnus Dei

Track length3:37

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Rue, P: Missa Puer natus est

Work length32:42

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Beauty Farm
Recorded: December 2016
Recording Venue: Chartreuse de Mauerbach

Missa Puer natus est: I. Kyrie

Track length3:17

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Missa Puer natus est: II. Gloria

Track length6:15

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Missa Puer natus est: III. Credo

Track length8:51

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Missa Puer natus est: IV. Sanctus

Track length9:18

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Missa Puer natus est: V. Agnus Dei

Track length5:01

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Rue, P: Missa Tous les regretz

Work length31:17

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Beauty Farm
Recorded: December 2016
Recording Venue: Chartreuse de Mauerbach

Missa Tous les regretz: I. Kyrie

Track length3:54

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Missa Tous les regretz: II. Gloria

Track length5:11

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Missa Tous les regretz: III. Credo

Track length8:15

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Missa Tous les regretz: IV. Sanctus

Track length8:12

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Missa Tous les regretz: V. Agnus Dei

Track length5:45

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Pierre de la Rue is one of the most fascinating and yet most elusive members of the supremely talented generation of composers from around 1500. Apart from his will tentatively suggesting Tournai as his birthplace, we know nothing definite about his early years; any identification as the singer Peter van der Straten (the Dutch equivalent of the name Pierre de la Rue), active in The Netherlands and Germany between 1469/70 and 1492/93 has been put into question with good reason.

On the other hand, we know a great deal about the last twenty-six years of his life. La Rue became a member of the Burgundian Habsburg court chapel in service of Philip the Fair and subsequently his widow Joanna of Castile and finally his sister Margaret of Austria, sometime between 1489 and 15th November 1492 (the first recorded mention of his name). He passed the final years of his life, from 1516 to 20th November 1518 in Kortrijk, where he benefited from an ecclesiastical sinecure.

La Rue’s personality also remains elusive; not even the slightest anecdote gives any hint, unlike the cases of Busnois, Isaac or Josquin. We only know from his epitaph that he was devout, charitable and “chaste and free of the sins of Venus” (castus et a Veneris crimine mundus). That may well be true, for La Rue made his name with sacred music and there is no trace of the frivolous, dubious or obscene texts which his contemporaries were wont to set amongst his secular songs. The melancholic tone prevalent in many of his pieces can best be understood as part of the representational politics of his last employer Margaret of Austria, who owed her powerful position as Regent of the Netherlands to her status as a double widow. Margaret consciously emphasised her widowed condition which permeated the whole court with an atmosphere of mourning and melancholy. But there are certainly other aspects to La Rue’s music.

Pierre De La Rue: Masses

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