La Rue: Missa de Sancta Anna / Lamentations

Pierre de la Rue: Missa de Sancta Anna / Lamentatione Jeremiæ

Schola Discantus - Kevin Moll
Lyrichord 8021

Contents:

Missa de Sancta Anna à 4

1. Kyrie
2. Gloria
3. Credo
4. Sanctus
5. Agnus Dei

Lamentatione Jeremiæ à 4
Lectio I:

6. Ain.
7. Phe.
8. Sade.
9. Caph.
10. Res.
11. Sin.
12. Jerusalem, Jerusalem (à 5)
13. Responsorium I (chant)

Lectio II:

14. Thau.
15. Aleph.
16. Beth.
17. Jerusalem, Jerusalem
18. Responsorium II (chant)

Lectio III:

19. Ghimel.
20. Daleth.
21. He.
22. Jerusalem, Jerusalem
23. Responsorium III (chant)

Performers: Noël Bisson, Melanie Frost, Eleanor Kelley (trebles); John Delorey, Bradford Findell (countertenors), Murray Kidd, Arthur Rawding (tenors), Glenn Billingsley, Mark Risinger (baritones)

Playing time: 65'

Recording date: May & June 1995

The Missa de Sancta Anna (c.1490) is rather forward-looking in its design, incorporating many harmonic effects seamlessly into the polyphonic style of the era, including a strict canon between two voices. The Lamentations are set rather more simply, but are one of the earliest surviving polyphonic examples of the genre.

The attribution of the Lamentations to La Rue is now considered doubtful. They are probably by Stephan Mahu (c.1485-1541).

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