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.

Tracklist:

Missa Pascale À 5: I. Kyrie
Missa Pascale À 5: II. Gloria
Missa Pascale À 5: III. Credo
Missa Pascale À 5: IV. Sanctus
Missa Pascale À 5: V. Agnus Dei
Missa Ista Est Speciosa À 5: I. Kyrie
Missa Ista Est Speciosa À 5: II. Gloria
Missa Ista Est Speciosa À 5: III. Credo
Missa Ista Est Speciosa À 5: IV. Sanctus
Missa Ista Est Speciosa À 5: V. Agnus Dei
Missa L'homme Armé À 4: I. Kyrie
Missa L'homme Armé À 4: II. Gloria
Missa L'homme Armé À 4: III. Credo
Missa L'homme Armé À 4: IV. Sanctus
Missa L'homme Armé À 4: V. Agnus Dei
Missa Pro Fidelibus Defunctis: I. Introitus
Missa Pro Fidelibus Defunctis: II. Kyrie
Missa Pro Fidelibus Defunctis: III. Tractus
Missa Pro Fidelibus Defunctis: IV. Offertorium
Missa Pro Fidelibus Defunctis: V. Sanctus
Missa Pro Fidelibus Defunctis: VI. Agnus Dei
Missa Pro Fidelibus Defunctis: VII. Communio

UPC: 4260307434557
Label: Fra Bernardo
Release Date: 1.18.19
Format: CD

Rue / Sound & Fury - Masses (2 CD)