Rue Masses CD

Beauty Farm is a 2014 founded vocal group focused on the Franco-Flemish polyphony of the renaissance. The international ensemble is based in the Carthusian Monastery at Mauerbach (Austria). The singers are members of well known ensembles like Capilla flamenca, Huelgas Ensemble, Vox Luminis, Collegium Vocale Gent and Graindelavoix. On this extensive release, the ever-acclaimed vocal quartet presents four masses of Pierre de la Rue, all composed during the composer's last creative period. Pierre de la Rue is one of the most fascinating and yet most elusive members of the talented generation of composers from around 1500. On the works recorded here he demonstrates his complete polyphonic skills and thus gives the melancholy an intellectual, complex nuance. The necessary lightness is provided by the voices of Bart Uvyn, Hans J?rg Mammel, Hannes Wagner and Joachim H?chbauer.

1. Kyrie 2. Gloria 3. Credo 4. Sanctus 5. Agnus Dei 6. Kyrie 7. Gloria 8. Credo 9. Sanctus 10. Agnus Dei 11. Kyrie 12. Gloria 13. Credo 14. Sanctus 15. Agnus Dei 16. Kyrie 17. Gloria 18. Credo 19. Sanctus 20. Agnus Dei