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Composer:
Pierre de la Rue

Artist(s):
Ensemble Officium

Conductor:
Wilfried Rombach

Background: Especially after Peter Ustinov's performance in the famous film about Martin Luther, the character of Friedrich the Wise has been brought back into the public spotlight. The Saxon elector was not only protector to Martin Luther, but a man who appreciated the arts and employed a famous court orchestra in Wittenberg.

The orchestra's repertoire has come down to us in the so-called Jena Choir Books, which contain many famous works of the era - including several by the composer Pierre de la Rue. His Missa pro defunctis is one of the earliest polyphonic Requiem settings and became one of the best-known masses for the dead in the Renaissance. The impressively low register of parts of the mass depicts in audible manner the position of the sinner knocking at Heaven's gate. ensemble officium combines the work with Pierre de la Rue's Missa de Beata Virgine and expands the complete mass by replacing the missing parts of the Proper with Gregorian chorales from the manuscript of St Thomas's church in Leipzig. The result is a Marian mass as it might have sounded in the (still Catholic) town of Wittenberg around 1500.

CATALOGUE NR: CHR77268
RECORD LABEL: Christophorus
FORMAT: CD
PRICE: £ 12.23 including VAT, or £ 10.64 excluding VAT
RELEASE DATE: 10-Jan-2005

COMPOSER: Pierre de la Rue
TITLE: Music for Frederick the Wise
TRACKS: Requiem - Missa pro defunctis - Introitus Requiem / Kyrie / Psalmus Sicut servus / Offertorium Domine Jesu Christe / Sanctus / Agnus Dei / Communio Lux aeterna / Missa de Beata Virgine - Introitus Salve sancta parens / Kyrie / Gloria / Graduale Benedicta et venerabilis / Credo / Offertorium Recordare Virgo Mater / Sanctus / Agnus Dei / Communio Beata viscera.
CONDUCTOR: Wilfried Rombach
ARTISTS: Ensemble Officium      

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: Sacred Music at the Court of Frederick the Wise

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