Release Date: 07 January 2000
Label: Naxos / Naxos Classics
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 636943465622
Genres: Classical
Composer/Series: LA RUE
Description
Pierre de La Rue(c.1460-1518)Missa de SeptemDolorlbus; Missa Pascale; Pater de caelis; Vexilla RegisBorn probably at Tournai in about the year 1460, Pierre de La Rue ismentioned as a tenor and then as a singer-composer in the records of theConfraternity of Our Lady at 's-Hertogenbosch from 1489 to 1492. For a shorttime first chaplain to the Burgundian-Habsburg court of Brussels-Mechelen, hetwice accompanied Philip the Fair to Spain, in 1501 and 1506. He spent the restof his career in Flanders, serving for nearly a quarter of a century theBurgundian-Habsburg rulers in the Chapel of the Holy Roman Emperor MaximilianI, Philip the Fair (King of Castile), Joanna of Spain, Marguerite of Austria(Regent of the Netherlands) and finally the young Archduke Karl, the futureCharles V. In 1505 he was appointed canon of the collegiate church in Courtrai,but was dispensed from the obligation to live there. He settled at Termonde,leaving in 1516 for Courtrai, where he died on 20th November 1518.Sacred works hold the principal place among Pierre de La Rue'scompositions and survive in over 150 manuscripts and publications. He wrotethirty Masses, seven parts of Masses, 24 motets and 3'7 chansons. Twelve contrafactaare Latin motets based on pre-existent works. Marguerite of Austria, themelancholy Regent, twice widowed, collected a large number of works by herfavourite composer in two richly illuminated manuscripts. In the 150magnificent manuscripts copied for the Burgundian-Habsburg dynasty up to 1530,Pierre de La Rue is represented twice as much as his contemporary JosquinDesprez. In over forty years following his death the sacred works of Pierre deLa Rue continued to be published, by Lutheran printers in Wittemberg andNuremberg, while in France Pierre Attaignant and other publishers issued hischansons. Musical theorists of the sixteenth century mention him for hisability in counterpoint and Sebald Heyden in 1537, Glareanus in 1547 and Morleyin 1597 give examples from his Masses. In the eighteenth century Charles Burneyrecalls his name and in the nineteenth his music was first rediscovered byAmbros in Vienna and Thibaut at Heidelberg.Pierre de La Rue's reputation as a composer of Masses was firmlyestablished by 1500. The Misse Petri de La Rue were published byOttaviano Petrucci in 1503. All these Masses are found at least once in amanuscript by Alamire, the copyist of the Burgundian-Habsburg dynasty in theNetherlands.The five-part Missa de Septem Doloribus beatissime marie virginis isfound in five manuscripts of Burgundian origin preserved in Brussels, Jena andthe Vatican. It was probably written after Match 1497, when Pierre de La Ruebecame chaplain to the Grande Chapelle of Philip the Fair. The Feast of theSeven Sorrows - the prophecy of Simeon in the Temple (St Luke), the flight intoEgypt (St Matthew), Jesus in the Temple (St Luke), Jesus carrying the Cross (StJohn), Jesus crucified (St John), Mary carrying the body of Jesus (notbiblical) and the entombment of Je
Tracklisting
Dariia Lytvishko
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra; Marin Alsop
Alice Di Piazza; Basel Sinfonietta; NDR Bigband; Titus Engel
Anna Alas i Jove; Miquel Villalba
David Childs; Black Dyke Band; Nicholas Childs
Yaqi Yang; Margarita Parsamyan; Robynne Redmon; Minghao Liu; Frank Ragsdale; Kim Josephson; Kevin S
Vilmos Csikos; Olivier Lechardeur; Manon Lamaison
Tomas Cotik; Martingale Ensemble; Ken Selden
