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Beauty Farm - La Rue: Masses '2018

La Rue: Masses
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Album name La Rue: Masses
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Date 2018
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Play time 02:09:07
Format / Bitrate Stereo 1420 Kbps / 44.1 kHz
MP3 320 Kbps
Media CD
Size 635 mb
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Tracks list

Tracklist
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CD1
01. Missa Almana: I. Kyrie
02. Missa Almana: II. Gloria
03. Missa Almana: III. Credo
04. Missa Almana: IV. Sanctus
05. Missa Almana: V. Agnus Dei
06. Missa de Sancto Antonio: I. Kyrie
07. Missa de Sancto Antonio: II. Gloria
08. Missa de Sancto Antonio: III. Credo
09. Missa de Sancto Antonio: IV. Sanctus
10. Missa de Sancto Antonio: V. Agnus Dei

CD2
01. Missa Puer natus est: I. Kyrie
02. Missa Puer natus est: II. Gloria
03. Missa Puer natus est: III. Credo
04. Missa Puer natus est: IV. Sanctus
05. Missa Puer natus est: V. Agnus Dei
06. Missa Tous les regretz: I. Kyrie
07. Missa Tous les regretz: II. Gloria
08. Missa Tous les regretz: III. Credo
09. Missa Tous les regretz: IV. Sanctus
10. Missa Tous les regretz: V. Agnus Dei

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.

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