Rating: 5/5
Review:
An excellent recording
This is an excellent double-CD. Don’t be put off by the silly name
of the ensemble or the abominably bad cover because the music is
wonderful.
The set consists of
four hitherto unrecorded mass settings by Pierre da la Rue: Missa
Almana, Missa De Sancto Antonio, Missa Puer natus est nobis and Missa
Tous les regretz. They are varied but all very fine settings as one
would expect from de la Rue, who was an excellent composer. There is
a spare beauty about them which I love and we owe Beauty Farm a debt
of gratitude for making them available to us.
The performances are
excellent. Beauty Farm sing one to a part here; they are technically
impeccable, with a lovely fluency of line and genuine engagement with
the text. At a lower Flemish pitch the lovely acoustic makes the
overall sound extremely beautiful and this is a very rewarding
recording all round which I can recommend very warmly.
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