Pierre de la Rue (c.1460-1518) - A discography

This discography has now been broken down by individual work, and researched to a certain degree, both for all the material we have detailed here and in our usual sources, and for possible misattributions. Although a goodly amount of work has gone into this effort, it is more than a mere possibility that some recordings are missing. Please advise me of this, if you have further information. Even as things stand, this listing should prove useful.

Last update: 30 June 2024

Discographic material has been collected to this stage with substantial help from Pierre-F. Roberge.

Todd M. McComb

Biography

Pierre de la Rue (c.1460-1518) was the leading composer at the court of Burgundy during the golden age of Franco-Flemish polyphony, and arguably the last great exponent of the medieval aesthetic in music. La Rue's output forms the third stage of a three-step development of musical form by his generation, following upon the work of Obrecht and then Josquin. While some research suggests that La Rue may have been the oldest of the three by a few years, he was also the last to develop a mature style. While La Rue did not achieve the subsequent fame of Josquin, it was he who perfected the formal innovations of the era, reinjecting them with a refined & subtle sense of variety. La Rue's mass cycles in the fully developed post-Obrecht style dwarf Josquin's in number, and while the priorities of text-setting and simpler expression in Josquin's late output became the rallying cry of the high Renaissance, it was La Rue whose output punctuated the end of the medieval era.

La Rue was the most important composer of his generation not to work in Italy. He worked in the North, outside of the full spotlight of modernity, and was the last major composer to have the most important part of his output preserved in hand-copied manuscripts. Despite being featured by Petrucci, the best sources for La Rue's music are those copied by the famous Pierre Alamire (c.1470-1534) in Burgundy. Given this unity of presentation & the proximity to his work, La Rue's catalog shows the least confusion among major composers of the era. He dominates the Burgundian manuscripts of the period, in both sacred & secular music. In fact, his influence on notation itself can be perceived, as he was the first to regularly use written accidentals and to extend ranges consistently outside the gamut. La Rue's innovations are impressive, despite his conservative reputation, but it is his non-systematic approach to musical development which both limited his subsequent influence and provides such fertile ground for exploration today.

La Rue was almost certainly born in Tournai, and some historical references suggest a date of birth around 1452, earlier than the previously popular estimate of 1460. However, more doubt has been thrown onto that date, and it seems La Rue may have been born later. He has been traced with differing levels of confidence to Brussels (1469/70), Ghent (1471/2), Nieuwpoort (1472/3-1477/8), Cologne (1488/9), and s-Hertogenbosch (1489-1492). By 1492, he joined the Burgundian court chapel of the Habsburgs, first serving under Maximilian and then most famously under Marguerite of Austria. He visited Spain twice with Philip the Fair, and was forced to spend a few months in England in 1506. (Agricola died on the same trip.) In 1516, he retired to Kortrijk as perhaps the wealthiest composer of his era (with ten major prebends). Contrary to those of many of his contemporaries, La Rue's career is marked largely by stability, and most of his surviving music is dated to after his appointment in Burgundy by 1492.

Despite the relatively late date of his compositional activity, and resulting speculation that many early works may be lost, La Rue was one of the most prolific composers of the period. Perhaps due to his late start, or lost early sources, identifying trends in La Rue's compositional development is difficult. His style appears fully mature almost immediately, with a wide variety of techniques evident throughout his output. He used canon extensively, most spectacularly in the six-voice canonic mass Missa Ave sanctissima Maria, as well as imitation, cantus firmus, ostinato, homophony, and word-painting. La Rue was a pioneer of the full-fledged parody mass, and used the technique in increasingly sophisticated settings such as the Missa Incessament mon pauvre (which also incorporates a strict canon). La Rue rarely used cantus firmus technique in a systematic fashion, preferring to vary the melody when restating it, making his sense of melodic variation one of his most distinctive traits. Individual lines tend to eschew direct repetition while maintaining a distinct internal consistency & differentiation between parts, based on range and tonal orientation. The result is a uniquely unified sense of linear melodic ideas within a polyphonic whole.

While La Rue's musical technique exemplifies subtle variety, his output of major works is among the most straightforwardly systematic of the period. He was the first to write a complete Magnificat cycle, and his approximately thirty-two mass cycles constitute a survey of the most important Marian and liturgical feasts together with one of the earliest Requiems. He also left two Kyries and five Credos, including an eight-voice Credo Angeli archangeli which borrows doubly from Isaac and Binchois. La Rue's twenty-five surviving motets (including six settings of Salve regina) are technically similar to his masses, while his secular songs (which may number as many as fifty) are among the most impressive outputs of the period. His innovations are under-recognized due to the next generation's emphasis on word-painting and the madrigal style, but La Rue's songs are among his most original works. Few use the fixed forms of the previous generation, and even fewer make use of borrowed material. Indeed, he rarely borrowed material from other composers in his masses either, preferring instead to borrow from his own songs and motets. Ockeghem is the most-represented composer among the rare borrowings in his output, and apparently La Rue's main influence (in spite of suggestions that he was engaged in a one-sided competition with Josquin).

La Rue is relatively neglected today, as the Requiem mass and Missa L'homme armé are his only major works to appear with any frequency in public. His predilection for strict canon and continuous melodic variation also serves to make his music enigmatic, and of course many of his innovations were not taken up by the next generation of composers. Nonetheless, La Rue's outputs of mass cycles and songs are each among the largest & finest of the era. While his large-scale planning did not always rival prominent contemporaries, his sense of melodic integrity & individuality within polyphony was often supreme. Especially in his masses, he seems to have been concerned with adopting & perfecting & improving upon every contrapuntal technique of the period. Considering the subsequent Renaissance emphasis on a specific subset of that body of technique, La Rue's output forms something of a climax to the Franco-Flemish style.

Todd M. McComb, 11/01; slightly updated, 01/07

La Rue's Works

The works list is based on Appendix D of Honey Meconi's Pierre de la Rue and Musical Life at the Habsburg-Burgundian Court, Oxford 2003. (Any subsequent departures from Meconi's list will be noted explicitly.)

Original releases, or more accurately first known releases, are numbered in the discography. Reissues, perhaps extracts or compilations or otherwise duplicated recordings, are not numbered. Re-releases of the exact same program are generally listed within the same files, not listed separately. The last section is for misattributed or unknown items.

Discography - Mass Cycles

Missa Alleluia

5-part mass ordinary. Model is unidentified. No. 11 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Eufoda 1232
    Missa Alleluia
    Muziek aan het Bourgondische hof
    Capilla Flamenca

  2. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

    Ricercar 102 [8 CDs+book]
    The Flemish Polyphony
    Various performers

Missa Almana

4-part mass ordinary. See Missa Pourquoy non.

Missa Assumpta est Maria

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa de assumptione beate marie. Uses the first antiphon for the Lauds for the Assumption. No. 6 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Musick's Monument Multimedia projecten 3-4-5 [2CDs+CDROM]
    Muziek van de Prins van Oranjen
    Het Musick's Monument Vocaal Ensemble - Brian Fieldhouse
    Note: Excerpts

Missa Ave Maria

4-part mass ordinary with 5-part Credo; uses the antiphon for the Annunciation. No. 10 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses, first of the second grouping.

  1. Musique en Wallonie 0633
    La Rue: Missa Ave Maria / Vespers
    Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings / Psallentes - Hendrik Vanden Abeele

  2. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

Missa Ave sanctissima Maria

6-part entirely canonic mass ordinary, also known as Deus meus eripe me, Missa sex vocum & Missa de beata virgine. Based on La Rue's 6-part motet of the same name. No. 26 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses, first of the third group.

  1. Adès "INA Collection Archives" 141 712 [CDx4]
    La musique française des origines à nos jours
    Ensemble polyphonique de l'Office De Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (Paris) - Charles Ravier
    Note: Excerpts

  2. Collegium Records JE 102 / 103 [LP]
    Flemish and Burgundian Music in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    The Columbia University Collegium Musicum - Richard Taruskin, dir.
    Note: Agnus only

  3. EMI (His Master's Voice) SLS 5049 (box) (LPs: OC 189 06202-4Q or ASD 3229-3231) [LPx3]
    The Art of the Netherlands
    The Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow
    Note: Sanctus only

  4. EMI Reflexe 64215 [CDx2]
    The Art of the Netherlands
    Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow
    Note: Sanctus only

  5. ORF "Alte Musik" 3094
    Pierre de La Rue 1
    « Paradise Regained » - polyphonie der renaissance
    The Sound and the Fury

  6. Virgin Edition 7243 5 61334 2 6 [CDx2]
    The Art of the Netherlands
    Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow
    Note: Sanctus only

    Warner Classics 90296 73084 [CDx34]
    Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
    Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow
    Note: Sanctus only

Missa Conceptio tua

5-part mass ordinary; uses Magnificat anthem for the Conception. No. 12 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Naxos 8.573260
    Missa Conceptio Tua
    Medieval and Renaissance Music for Advent
    Schola Antiqua of Chicago - Michael Alan Anderson

Missa Cum iocunditate

4-part mass ordinary with 5-part Credo; uses 5th anthem for 2nd Vespers for the Nativity. No. 7 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Challenge Classics 72710
    La Rue: Missa Cum jocunditate
    Visions of Joy / The Chapel of Hieronymus Bosch
    Cappella Pratensis - Stratton Bull

  2. EMI Reflexe 54082
    Pierre de la Rue: Missa Cum iocunditate / Motets
    Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier

  3. Etcetera 1214
    La Rue: Missa cum iucunditate
    Motets by Clemens non Papa, Josquin, Ockeghem, Willaert
    Henry's Eight - Jonathan Brown

  4. Etcetera 1519 [CDx5]
    In the Footsteps of Petrus Alamire
    Various artists

    Warner Classics 90296 73084 [CDx34]
    Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
    Hilliard Ensemble

Missa de beata virgine

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa Coronatum, Missa de domina, Missa Salve sancta parens & Patrem Cardinal. Based on plainchant ordinary. No. 2 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Christophorus 77268
    La Rue: Requiem / Missa de Beata Virgine
    Geistliche Musik der Hofkapelle Friedrichs des Weisen
    Ensemble Officium - Wilfried Rombach

Missa de feria

5-part canonic mass ordinary; uses Gloria & Credo plainchant. No. 13 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Hyperion 67010
    La Rue: Missa de Feria / Missa Sancta Dei Genitrix
    Gothic Voices - Christopher Page

Missa de Sancta Anna

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa Felix Anna. Uses antiphon to the Magnificat for St. Anne; substitutes motet O saluatoris hostia in place of Osanna I. No. 14 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Lyrichord 8021
    Pierre de la Rue: Missa de Sancta Anna / Lamentatione Jeremiæ
    Schola Discantus - Kevin Moll

Missa de sancta cruce

5-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa Nos autem gloriari. Uses Nos autem gloriari from the introit to Finding of the Holy Cross and Exaltation of the Holy Cross. No. 15 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. AS&V "Gaudeamus" 307
    La Rue: Missa de Sancta Cruce / Quadris: Lamentations
    Clerks' Group - Edward Wickham

  2. Cappella Nova Mundi 117
    Far beyond the stars
    Cappella Nova Mundi - William Kempster

  3. Sands Films [CD]
    La Rue: Christmas Mass
    Ensemble Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin

Missa de Sancto Antonio

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa Agnosce o Vincenti, Missa Ecce advenit & Missa O sacer Anthoni. Uses 1st antiphon for Vespers for St. Anthony Abbot. No. 8 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Fra Bernardo 1800751 [CDx2]
    La Rue Masses
    Beauty Farm

  2. University of New Hampshire 0617 [CD]
    Of Saints and Seers
    University of New Hampshire Chamber Singers - William Kempster

Missa de Sancto Job

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa Floruit egregius. Based on chants for the office for St. Livinus, as used by Pipelare in his Missa Floruit egregius. No. 16 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. ORF Shop CD 150 [CD]
    Pierre de La Rue - Missa De Sancto Job
    Orlando Consort

Missa de septem doloribus

5-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa de doloribus M. virginis, Missa Dolores gloriose recolentes, & Missa quinque vocum de doloribus. Uses the invitatory to Matins, sequence for the Seven Sorrows of Mary, and unidentified chant models. No. 17 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    Etcetera 1519 [CDx5]
    In the Footsteps of Petrus Alamire
    Various artists

  1. Musique en Wallonie 0207
    La Rue: Missa de septem doloribus
    Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings / Psallentes - Hendrik Vanden Abeele

  2. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

  3. Naxos 8.554656
    La Rue: Mass of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin / Easter Mass
    Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin

  4. Philips "Trésors Classiques" 641.741 LL [LP, mono]
    Pierre de La Rue
    Requiem - Missa "Pro Defunctis" & Mass "Dolores gloriose recollentes"
    Ensemble Polyphonique de Paris - Charles Ravier, dir.

Missa de virginibus

4-part mass ordinary, surviving in a single source, and also known as Missa O quam pulchra & Missa Pulchra es; model unidentified. No. 30 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Missa Incessament

5-part canonic mass ordinary, also known as Missa Sic deus & Non salvatur rex. Uses La Rue's own chanson. La Rue's longest mass cycle. No. 27 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Raum Klang "Edition Apollon" 10105
    La Rue: Incessament
    Amarcord

Missa Inviolata

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Omnes peccaverunt. Uses Marian sequence. No. 18 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Hyperion 68150
    La Rue: Missa Nuncqua fue pena mayor / Missa Inviolata
    Brabant Ensemble - Stephen Rice

Missa Ista est speciosa

5-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa de sanctissima virgine Maria & Missa quinque vocum. Uses antiphon de commemoratione beata virgine. No. 19 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Fra Bernardo 1810 455 [CDx2]
    La Rue: Masses
    The Sound and the Fury

  2. ORF Shop OS 2 004 820 [CDx2]
    Margarete - Maximilian I
    Musik um 1500
    Capilla Flamenca / La Caccia / Knaben de Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino Aalst / Schola Gregoriana Lovaniensis / Joris Verdin - Dirk Snellings

Missa L'homme armé I

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Quaerite dominum. Uses the l'homme armé melody; famous 4 ex 1 mensuration canon in Agnus II. No. 3 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Another Timbre 190
    Lang: Tehran Dust
    Trio Amos / Klaus Lang
    Note: Agnus (II) only

  2. Eufoda 1372
    Bellum & Pax
    Missa L'homme armé / Da Pacem
    Obrecht / Josquin / La Rue
    Capilla Flamenca / Oltremontano / Psallentes
    Note: Credo & Agnus only

  3. Fra Bernardo 1810 455 [CDx2]
    La Rue: Masses
    The Sound and the Fury

  4. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1296 [CD]
    La Rue: Missa L'homme armé / Missa Pro Defunctis
    Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse

  5. Harmonia Mundi HMX 290 8016.20 [CDx5]
    Musique de la Renaissance Music
    L'Europe Musicale au XVe et XVIe siècles
    Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse
    Note: partial cycle

    Harmonia Mundi "Century" HMX 290 8170 [CD]
    Messes et Motets de la Renaissance (1500-1600 / Renaissance Masses and Motets (1500-1600)
    Musique sacrée de la Renaissance / Renaissance Sacred Music
    Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse
    Note: partial cycle

  6. Indiana University School of Music Program no. 778 [tape reel x2]
    Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble
    Indiana University Contemporary Vocal Ensemble - Stephen Fentress
    Note: Agnus only

  7. Kontrapunkt 32008
    La Rue: Missa l'Homme armé / Gombert: Motets
    Ensemble Ars Nova - Bo Holten

  8. Ricercar 102 [8 CDs+book]
    The Flemish Polyphony
    Various performers
    Note: Credo & Agnus only

Missa L'homme armé II

Attributed 4-part canonic mass ordinary, with 5-part Agnus. Uses the l'homme armé melody. No. 20 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Missa Mediatrix nostra

Lost.

Missa Nuncqua fue pena major

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Libertatem quam maiores & Missa Nunquam fierit. Uses Urrede's villancico. No. 4 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Association Pierre de la Rue [no number] [CD]
    La Rue: Missa Nunca fué pena mayor / Missa Tous les regretz
    Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin

  2. Harmonia Mundi USA 907328
    The Toledo Summit
    Early 16th c. Spanish and Flemish Songs and Motets
    Orlando Consort
    Note: Kyrie only

  3. Hyperion 68150
    La Rue: Missa Nuncqua fue pena mayor / Missa Inviolata
    Brabant Ensemble - Stephen Rice

Missa O gloriosa domina

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa O gloriosa Magaretha & Missa quatour vocum. Uses the hymn O gloriosa domina. No. 21 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Cornetto 10007
    La Rue: Missa "O gloriosa Margaretha" / Vexilla Regis / Considera Israel
    Peñalosa Ensemble / Raimund Schächer

Missa O salutaris hostia

4-part entirely canonic mass ordinary; no known model. No. 22 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. ORF "Alte Musik" 3094
    Pierre de La Rue 1
    « Paradise Regained » - polyphonie der renaissance
    The Sound and the Fury

Missa pascale

5-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa quinque vocum & Missa Resurrexi. Uses 7 chants from the Easter liturgy. No. 23 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Fra Bernardo 1810 455 [CDx2]
    La Rue: Masses
    The Sound and the Fury

  2. Naxos 8.554656
    La Rue: Mass of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin / Easter Mass
    Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin

Missa Pourquoy non

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa Almana & Missa Sexti ut fa. Note that the (contemporary) "Pourquoy non" assignment was rather vigorously denied by Meconi. However, I am swayed by Kempster's more recent published research on the issue, and so have changed the name on this page. (It was Missa Almana for Meconi.) No. 1 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Fra Bernardo 1800751 [CDx2]
    La Rue Masses
    Beauty Farm

  2. University of New Hampshire 0516 [CD]
    Pourquoy non?
    University of New Hampshire Chamber Singers - William Kempster

Missa pro fidelibus defunctis

4/5-part Requiem mass, also known as Missa pro defunctis. Uses plainchants for the Requiem mass. No. 25 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses, last of the second group.

  1. Amon Ra 24 [CD]
    La Rue: Requiem / Josquin: Mass - Hercules Dux Ferrariae & Deploration
    New London Chamber Choir - James Wood

  2. Amon Ra 40
    The 1988 Amon Ra Sampler
    New London Chamber Choir - James Wood
    Note: Introit only

  3. Ancient Voice Records 002
    Extreme Singing
    La Rue Requiem and other Low Masterpieces of the Renaissance
    Vox Early Music Ensemble - Christopher Wolverton

  4. Bayard Musique 308 475 22
    Requiem - Ockeghem / La Rue
    Diabolus in Musica - Antoine Guerber

  5. Berlin Classics 300147 [CD]
    Chor Edition - Das 16. Jahrhundert
    Dulcissima mia vita
    Desprez / Palestrina / Gabrieli / Lasso
    Various artists
    Note: Introit only

  6. Challenge Classics 72541
    Ockeghem / La Rue: Requiem
    Cappella Pratensis - Stratton Bull

  7. Christophorus 77268
    La Rue: Requiem / Missa de Beata Virgine
    Geistliche Musik der Hofkapelle Friedrichs des Weisen
    Ensemble Officium - Wilfried Rombach

  8. Columbia River Entertainment Group 1170 [CDx5]
    World Classics - The Great History of Belgian and Dutch Classical Music
    Various performers

  9. Eterna (VEB Schallplaten) 8 26 392 [LP]
    Pierre de la Rue: Missa pro defunctis (Requiem) - Heinrich Isaac: Missa "Carminum"
    Capella Lipsiensis & Ein Kinderchor (Kurrende der Peterskirche Leipzig) - Dietrich Knothe, dir.

  10. Fra Bernardo 1810 455 [CDx2]
    La Rue: Masses
    The Sound and the Fury

  11. Gaudeamus CD GAU 352
    Pierre de La Rue / Antoine Brumel
    Requiem
    Clerks' Group - Edward Wickham, dir.

  12. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1296 [CD]
    La Rue: Missa L'homme armé / Missa Pro Defunctis
    Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse

  13. HMV-Gramophone HMS 27 [78rpm]
    Netherland Church Music: c. 1500
    Schola Polyphonica - Henry Washington, dir.
    Note: Introit only

  14. HMV HLP 5/6/7 [LPx3, mono, 25cm, Europe]
    The History of Music in Sound, Vol. III: Ars Nova and the Renaissance
    Schola Polyphonica - Henry Washington
    Note: Introit only

  15. Kontrapunkt 32001
    La Rue: Requiem / Wert: Motets
    Ensemble Ars Nova - Bo Holten

  16. Musik Museum 13030
    Ein musikalisches Gipfeltreffen 1503
    La Rue Requiem / Isaac / Obrecht
    Capella de la Torre - Katharina Bäuml

  17. Philips "Trésors Classiques" 641.741 LL [LP, mono]
    Pierre de La Rue
    Requiem - Missa "Pro Defunctis" & Mass "Dolores gloriose recollentes"
    Ensemble Polyphonique de Paris - Charles Ravier, dir.

  18. Saydisc / Amon Ra 73 [CD]
    High Renaissance
    Choral Polyphony from the Low Countries
    New London Chamber Choir - James Wood

  19. Telefunken "Das Alte Werk" AWT 9 471-A [LP, mono]
    Requiem und Totenklagen um 1500-1550
    Pierre de La Rue and others
    Capella Antiqua, München - Konrad Ruhland, dir.

  20. Vox "Turnabout" TV 34 431 [LP]
    Josquin Des Pres - Missa "Pange Lingua" & Pierre de La Rue - Requiem Missa "Pro Defunctis"
    Spandauer Kantorei - Martin Behrmann, cond.

  21. Warner Classics 90296 73084 [CDx34]
    Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
    Capella Antiqua

Missa Puer natus est

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa de nativitate Christi. Uses introit for the 3rd mass on Christmas. No. 5 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Eufoda 1366
    Lumina
    Christmas around the 1500's
    Capilla Flamenca
    Note: Kyrie only

  2. Fra Bernardo 1800751 [CDx2]
    La Rue Masses
    Beauty Farm

  3. Regulus Classics 1006 [CD]
    Puer natus est!
    Christmas music by Pierre de la Rue & Jean Mouton
    Vocal ensemble Cappella - Tetsuro Hanai

  4. Sand Films [CD]
    La Rue: Christmas Mass
    Ensemble Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin

Missa Sancta dei genitrix

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Miserere mei deus. Uses unidentified 7-note ostinato. No. 31 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Hyperion 67010
    La Rue: Missa de Feria / Missa Sancta Dei Genitrix
    Gothic Voices - Christopher Page

Missa sine nomine I

4-part mass ordinary, surviving in a single source. No known model. No. 28 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Missa sine nomine II

4-part mass ordinary, of questionable attribution. No known model. No. 29 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Missa Sub tuum presidium

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Missa in mi & Missa quarti toni. Uses the Marian chant. No. 9 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses, last of the first grouping.

  1. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 19075 97001 2 [CDx3]
    The Magic of Polyphony
    Huelgas Ensemble - Paul Van Nevel
    Note: Sanctus only

  2. Etcetera 1519 [CDx5]
    In the Footsteps of Petrus Alamire
    Various artists

  3. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca
    Note: This may not be the original release.

Missa Tandernaken

4-part mass ordinary, also known as Amicus fidelis & Frange esurienti. Uses the popular Flemish song. La Rue's shortest mass cycle. No. 32 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Missa Tous les regretz

4-part mass ordinary, in two separate versions. Uses La Rue's own chanson. No. 24 in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

  1. Association Pierre de la Rue [no number] [CD]
    La Rue: Missa Nunca fué pena mayor / Missa Tous les regretz
    Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin

  2. Fra Bernardo 1800751 [CDx2]
    La Rue Masses
    Beauty Farm

Discography - Mass Movements

Kyrie in festo pasche

4-part Kyrie, surviving in a single source. Uses Easter Kyrie chant. In La Rue's second period in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Kyrie pascale

Attributed 5-part canonic Kyrie. Uses Easter Kyrie chant. In La Rue's third period in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Credo, 4vv

4-part Credo, surviving in a single source. First in La Rue's second period in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Credo, 6vv

6-part Credo. Among La Rue's earliest settings in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Credo Angeli archangeli

8-part Credo, surviving in a single source. Based on Isaac's motet. Last in La Rue's third period in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Credo de villagiis

4-part Credo, based on Credo I chant. In La Rue's second period in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Credo L'amour du moy

4-part Credo. Based on monophonic chanson. In La Rue's third period in Meconi's tentative chronological ordering of the masses.

    No known recording.

Discography - Magnificats

Magnificat primi toni

3/6-part Magnificat, surviving in a single source.

  1. Naxos 8.557896-97 [CDx2]
    La Rue: The Complete Magnificats / Three Salve Reginas
    VivaVoce - Peter Schubert

Magnificat secundi toni

2/4-part Magnificat.

  1. Naxos 8.557896-97 [CDx2]
    La Rue: The Complete Magnificats / Three Salve Reginas
    VivaVoce - Peter Schubert

Magnificat tertii toni

Lost.

Magnificat quarti toni

3/4-part Magnificat.

  1. Naxos 8.557896-97 [CDx2]
    La Rue: The Complete Magnificats / Three Salve Reginas
    VivaVoce - Peter Schubert

  2. Sand Films [CD]
    La Rue: Christmas Mass
    Ensemble Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin

Magnificat quinti toni

2/4-part Magnificat.

  1. Musique en Wallonie 0633
    La Rue: Missa Ave Maria / Vespers
    Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings / Psallentes - Hendrik Vanden Abeele

  2. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

  3. Naxos 8.557896-97 [CDx2]
    La Rue: The Complete Magnificats / Three Salve Reginas
    VivaVoce - Peter Schubert

Magnificat sexti toni

3/5-part Magnificat.

  1. Hyperion 68150
    La Rue: Missa Nuncqua fue pena mayor / Missa Inviolata
    Brabant Ensemble - Stephen Rice

  2. Klanglogo 1412
    Nostre Dame
    Vienna Vocal Consort

  3. Naxos 8.557896-97 [CDx2]
    La Rue: The Complete Magnificats / Three Salve Reginas
    VivaVoce - Peter Schubert

Magnificat septimi toni

3/4-part Magnificat.

  1. Naxos 8.557896-97 [CDx2]
    La Rue: The Complete Magnificats / Three Salve Reginas
    VivaVoce - Peter Schubert

Magnificat octavi toni

2/4-part Magnificat, surviving in a single source.

  1. Naxos 8.557896-97 [CDx2]
    La Rue: The Complete Magnificats / Three Salve Reginas
    VivaVoce - Peter Schubert

Discography - Motets

Absalon fili mi

4-part motet, of questionable attribution. Perhaps by Josquin.

  1. Ancient Voice Records 002
    Extreme Singing
    La Rue Requiem and other Low Masterpieces of the Renaissance
    Vox Early Music Ensemble - Christopher Wolverton

  2. Arktos 98027CD
    Time
    Early Music Consort of Calgary

  3. Arktos CD 20041
    One
    Ensemble de La Rue - William Kempster, dir.

  4. Ars Musici 1278
    Josquin: Missa "Ave maris stella" / Vergil-Motetten
    Dufay Ensemble - Eckehard Kiem

  5. Auvidis Ibèrica (Naïve) AVI 8026
    Nunca fue pena mayor
    Música Religiosa en torno al Papa Alejandro VI
    Capella de Ministrers & Cor de la Generalitat Valenciana - Carles Magraner, dir.

  6. Bis 1949
    End Beginning
    New York Polyphony

  7. Cappella Nova Mundi 117
    Far beyond the stars
    Cappella Nova Mundi - William Kempster

  8. Glossa GCD P32105 [CD]
    Cecus
    Colours, blindness and memorial: Alexander Agricola and his contemporaries
    Graindelavoix; - Björn Schmelzer, dir.

  9. Harmonia Mundi HMU 807595
    From the Imperial Court
    Music for the House of Hapsburg
    Stile Antico

  10. Harmonia Mundi 90 2620 [CD]
    Josquin: Miserere mei Deus
    Funeral Motets & Deplorations
    Cappella Amsterdam - Daniel Reuss

  11. Herald HAVPCD 187
    What is our Life?
    Renaissance Laments and Elegies
    Cambridge Taverner Choir - Owen Rees, dir.

  12. Hyperion 68379 [CD]
    Josquin's Legacy
    The Gesualdo Six - Owain Park

  13. Nonesuch H-71 216 [LP, stereo]
    Josquin Desprez: Missa "Ave maris stella" - Four motets
    University of Illinois Chamber Choir - George Hunter, cond.

  14. Obsidian 712 [CDx2]
    The Spy's Choirbook
    Petrus Alamire & the Court of Henry VIII
    Alamire / English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble - David Skinner

  15. Oxford University Press 128, 787 p., 1976 (edited by Edward E. Lowinsky, in collaboration with Bonnie J. Blackburn) [LPx3, 17cm]
    International Josquin Festival-Conference (1971: New York)
    Josquin des Prez: proceedings of the International Josquin Festival-Conference held at the Julliard School at Lincoln Center in New York City, 21-25 June 1971 / sponsored by the American Musicological Society, in cooperation with the International Musicological Society, and the Renaissance Society of America
    Capella Antiqua, Munich - Konrad Ruhland

  16. Regulus Classics 1008 [CD]
    Dulces exuvie
    Laments & Marian motets from an Alamire manuscript
    Vocal ensemble Cappella - Tetsuro Hanai

  17. Vanguard "The Bach Guild - Historical Anthology of Music" HM 3SD [LP-Stereo]
    Josquin Des Prés - L'homme armé & Motets
    The Josquin Choir - Jeremy Noble, dir.

Ave regina celorum

4-part motet, also known as Ave apertor caelorum. Marian antiphon, possibly modelled on chant.

  1. Archiv 457 609
    A Flemish Feast
    Flemish Renaissance Wind Music
    Piffaro Renaissance Band - Joan Kimball & Robert Wiemken

  2. Cappella Nova Mundi (no number) [download]
    Renewals and Reincarnations
    Cappella Nova Mundi - William Kempster

  3. EMI Reflexe 54082
    Pierre de la Rue: Missa Cum iocunditate / Motets
    Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier

  4. Ensemble de la Rue EdlR 200502 [CD]
    Memory Pieces
    Ensemble de la Rue - William Kempster, dir.

  5. Musique en Wallonie 0633
    La Rue: Missa Ave Maria / Vespers
    Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings / Psallentes - Hendrik Vanden Abeele

  6. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

  7. Obsidian 712 [CDx2]
    The Spy's Choirbook
    Petrus Alamire & the Court of Henry VIII
    Alamire / English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble - David Skinner

  8. ORF "Edition Alte Musik" CD 281 [CDx3 + CD (dts)]
    Resonanzen 2001
    Viva España
    Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings

  9. Rivo Alto 9703
    Musiche per Van Dyck: Chanson e Madrigali dei secoli XVI e XX
    Ring Around Quartet

  10. Warner Classics 90296 73084 [CDx34]
    Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
    Hilliard Ensemble

Ave sanctissima Maria

Attributed 6-part canonic motet.

  1. Disques Office 65477
    L'Album de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Josquin Desprez / Pierre de La Rue
    Ensemble La Sestina - Adriano Giardina

  2. EMI (His Master's Voice) SLS 5049 (box) (LPs: OC 189 06202-4Q or ASD 3229-3231) [LPx3]
    The Art of the Netherlands
    The Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow

  3. RBM Musikproduktion (München) 3021 [LP]
    Gloria Dei
    Weihnachtliche Musik aus 4 Jahrhunderten
    Karslruher Consort - Hans Spengler, dir.

  4. Virgin Edition 7243 5 61334 2 6 [CDx2]
    The Art of the Netherlands
    Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow

    Warner Classics 90296 73084 [CDx34]
    Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
    Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow

Considera Israel

4-part motet on David's lament for Jonathan from II Samuel.

  1. AS&V "Gaudeamus" 307
    La Rue: Missa de Sancta Cruce / Quadris: Lamentations
    Clerks' Group - Edward Wickham

  2. Cornetto 10007
    La Rue: Missa "O gloriosa Margaretha" / Vexilla Regis / Considera Israel
    Peñalosa Ensemble / Raimund Schächer

  3. Ensemble de la Rue EdlR 202001 [CD]
    J.S. Bach: Motetten
    Ensemble de la Rue - William Kempster

  4. EMI Reflexe 54082
    Pierre de la Rue: Missa Cum iocunditate / Motets
    Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier

  5. Warner Classics 90296 73084 [CDx34]
    Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
    Hilliard Ensemble

Da pacem domine

4-part canonic motet; uses the antiphon for peace.

  1. Eufoda 1372
    Bellum & Pax
    Missa L'homme armé / Da Pacem
    Obrecht / Josquin / La Rue
    Capilla Flamenca / Oltremontano / Psallentes

  2. Ricercar 102 [8 CDs+book]
    The Flemish Polyphony
    Various performers

Delicta iuventutis

4-part motet; two versions of the text, related to Office for the dead.

  1. Choralis Constantinus (002) [CDx2]
    Choralis Constantinus 500
    Vocal liturgical music in the Habsburg imperial court according to 15th and 16th-century practices
    Corvina Consort, et al. - Zoltán Kalmanovits

  2. EMI Reflexe 54082
    Pierre de la Rue: Missa Cum iocunditate / Motets
    Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier

  3. Glossa GCD P32105 [CD]
    Cecus
    Colours, blindness and memorial: Alexander Agricola and his contemporaries
    Graindelavoix; - Björn Schmelzer, dir.

  4. Warner Classics 90296 73084 [CDx34]
    Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
    Hilliard Ensemble

Doleo super te

Quarta pars of Considera Israel; survives separately. Recordings of only this part are listed here.

  1. Disques Office 65477
    L'Album de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Josquin Desprez / Pierre de La Rue
    Ensemble La Sestina - Adriano Giardina

  2. Glossa GCD P32105 [CD]
    Cecus
    Colours, blindness and memorial: Alexander Agricola and his contemporaries
    Graindelavoix; - Björn Schmelzer, dir.

  3. Herald HAVPCD 187
    What is our Life?
    Renaissance Laments and Elegies
    Cambridge Taverner Choir - Owen Rees, dir.

  4. Musique en Wallonie MEW 525
    Dulcis Melancholia
    Biographie musicale de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Capilla Flamenca

  5. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

  6. Obsidian 712 [CDx2]
    The Spy's Choirbook
    Petrus Alamire & the Court of Henry VIII
    Alamire / English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble - David Skinner

  7. Regulus Classics 1008 [CD]
    Dulces exuvie
    Laments & Marian motets from an Alamire manuscript
    Vocal ensemble Cappella - Tetsuro Hanai

Gaude virgo

4-part motet, surviving in a single source; possibly based on psalm tone 7.

  1. Archiv 2533377 [LP]
    Jacob Obrecht - Pierre de la Rue
    Motetten - Motets
    Pro Cantione Antiqua, London & The London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble - Bruno Turner, dir.

  2. Archiv 445 667-2 (box, 445 668 / 445 674 on CD) [CDx7]
    The flowering of Renaissance choral music
    Geistliche Musik der Renaissance - Musique sacrée de la Renaissance
    Pro Cantione Antiqua - Bruno Turner, dir.

  3. Challenge Classics 72710
    La Rue: Missa Cum jocunditate
    Visions of Joy / The Chapel of Hieronymus Bosch
    Cappella Pratensis - Stratton Bull

  4. EMI Reflexe 54082
    Pierre de la Rue: Missa Cum iocunditate / Motets
    Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier

  5. Harmonia Mundi USA 907328
    The Toledo Summit
    Early 16th c. Spanish and Flemish Songs and Motets
    Orlando Consort

  6. Regulus Classics 1017 [CD]
    Virgo Serena
    Vocal ensemble Cappella - Tetsuro Hanai

  7. Warner Classics 90296 73084 [CDx34]
    Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
    Hilliard Ensemble

Lauda anima mea dominum

4-part motet, sets Psalm 146.

    No known recording.

Laudate dominum

4-part canonic motet, surviving in a single source; sets Psalm 117.

  1. Archiv 2533377 [LP]
    Jacob Obrecht - Pierre de la Rue
    Motetten - Motets
    Pro Cantione Antiqua, London & The London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble - Bruno Turner, dir.

  2. Archiv Produktion 2523 070 [LPx6]
    Geistliche Musik der Renaissance
    Pro Cantione Antiqua - Bruno Turner

    Archiv 445 667-2 (box, 445 668 / 445 674 on CD) [CDx7]
    The flowering of Renaissance choral music
    Geistliche Musik der Renaissance - Musique sacrée de la Renaissance
    Pro Cantione Antiqua - Bruno Turner, dir.

    Etcetera 1519 [CDx5]
    In the Footsteps of Petrus Alamire
    Various artists

  3. Eufoda 1166
    Isaac, Obrecht, De La Rue
    Capella Sancti Michaelis / Currende Consort - Erik Van Nevel

  4. Eufoda 1160/69 [CDx10]
    De Vlaamse Polyfonie
    Capella Sancti Michaelis / Currende Consort - Erik Van Nevel

  5. Sands Films [CD]
    La Rue: Christmas Mass
    Ensemble Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin

Maria mater gratie / Fors seulement

Attributed 5-part motet; uses the tenor of Ockeghem's rondeau.

    No known recording.

O domine Jhesu Christe

4-part motet, surviving in a single source.

  1. Hyperion 67010
    La Rue: Missa de Feria / Missa Sancta Dei Genitrix
    Gothic Voices - Christopher Page

O salutaris hostia

Attributed 4-part motet. Text in honor of the Blessed Sacrament; exists in Missa de Sancta Anna, and separately.

  1. Apollon Classics apc 10201
    Hear the Voice
    Ensemble Amarcord

  2. Bis 2277 [SACD hybrid]
    And the sun darkened
    Music for Passiontide
    New York Polyphony

  3. Challenge Classics 72710
    La Rue: Missa Cum jocunditate
    Visions of Joy / The Chapel of Hieronymus Bosch
    Cappella Pratensis - Stratton Bull

  4. Challenge Classics 72879
    Apostola apostolorum
    A Renaissance brotherhood celebrates St. Mary Magdalene
    Nicolas Champion: Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena
    Cappella Pratensis - Stratton Bull

  5. Columbia (France) RFX 73 [78 r.p.m.]
    Josquin - de la Rue
    Chorale de la cathédrale Notre-Dame de Strasbourg - Abbé Hoch, dir.

  6. ECM New Series 1525
    Officium
    Jan Garbarek / Hilliard Enemble

  7. EMI Reflexe 54082
    Pierre de la Rue: Missa Cum iocunditate / Motets
    Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier

  8. Erasmus 249
    Benedicta es, celorum regina
    Renaissance in The Netherlands
    Cappella Breda & Daniël Speer Trombone Consort - Daan Manneke, cond.

  9. Erato LDE 1001 [LP, 17cm, mono, Europe]
    Motets polyphoniques - XVIe siècle
    Les Petits chanteurs de la Renaissance - Marcel Noyre & Jean Pagot, cond.

  10. Etcetera 1519 [CDx5]
    In the Footsteps of Petrus Alamire
    Various artists

  11. Gotham Records "The French Broadcasting System in North America" GRC 5753 / 5754 [LPx2, auto. coupling]
    Masterworks from France - Program 451 & 452
    Orchestre de la RTF - Eugène Bigot, dir.
    Chorale des Jeunesses musicales - Louis Martini, dir.

  12. Haydn Society HSL 9007 [LP]
    Vocal Polyphony from the 15th to the 17th Century
    Les Petits chanteurs de la Renaissance - Marcel Noyre & Jean Pagot, cond.

  13. Lyrichord LL 52 [LP, mono]
    Easter motets
    Motets of the Fifttenth and Sixteenth Centuries, with Easter Themes
    Welch Chorale - James B. Welch, dir.

  14. NM Classics 92064
    Vox Neerlandica 1
    Nederlands Kamerkoor (Netherlands Chamber Choir) - Paul van Nevel, dir.

  15. NM Classics "Special" 93001
    600 Years of Choral Music: Highlights
    Netherlands Chamber Choir

  16. Tall Poppies 141
    The Ockeghem Legacy
    Sydney Chamber Choir - Nicholas Routley

  17. Warner Classics 90296 73084 [CDx34]
    Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
    Hilliard Ensemble

Pater de coelis deus

6-part canonic motet; uses responsories associated with the Trinity.

  1. Archiv 2533377 [LP]
    Jacob Obrecht - Pierre de la Rue
    Motetten - Motets
    Pro Cantione Antiqua, London & The London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble - Bruno Turner, dir.

  2. Archiv Produktion 2523 070 [LPx6]
    Geistliche Musik der Renaissance
    Pro Cantione Antiqua - Bruno Turner

    Archiv 445 667-2 (box, 445 668 / 445 674 on CD) [CDx7]
    The flowering of Renaissance choral music
    Geistliche Musik der Renaissance - Musique sacrée de la Renaissance
    Pro Cantione Antiqua - Bruno Turner, dir.

  3. Ensemble de la Rue Productions 200101
    The Cry
    Ensemble de la Rue - William Kempster

  4. Hyperion 67010
    La Rue: Missa de Feria / Missa Sancta Dei Genitrix
    Gothic Voices - Christopher Page

  5. Naxos 8.554656
    La Rue: Mass of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin / Easter Mass
    Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin

Petre amas me

Lost.

Quis dabit pacem

4-part motet, surviving in a single source; textless. Suggested by Kempster to use the same text as Isaac's setting from the same source.

  1. Cappella Nova Mundi (no number) [download]
    Renewals and Reincarnations
    Cappella Nova Mundi - William Kempster

Regina celi

4-part motet, surviving in a single source; uses the Marian chant.

  1. Hyperion 67010
    La Rue: Missa de Feria / Missa Sancta Dei Genitrix
    Gothic Voices - Christopher Page

  2. Musique en Wallonie 0633
    La Rue: Missa Ave Maria / Vespers
    Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings / Psallentes - Hendrik Vanden Abeele

  3. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

Salve Jesu

6-part motet. Once considered lost, found by Eric Jas & edited with Kempster.

    No known recording.

Salve mater salvatoris

4-part motet; prayer for the Assumption.

  1. Ensemble de la Rue EdlR 200502 [CD]
    Memory Pieces
    Ensemble de la Rue - William Kempster, dir.

  2. Musique en Wallonie 0633
    La Rue: Missa Ave Maria / Vespers
    Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings / Psallentes - Hendrik Vanden Abeele

  3. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

  4. ORF Shop CD 150 [CD]
    Pierre de La Rue - Missa De Sancto Job
    Orlando Consort

Salve regina I

4-part canonic motet; influenced by chant.

    No confirmed known recording.

Salve regina II

4-part motet; uses Marian chant.

  1. Musique en Wallonie 0633
    La Rue: Missa Ave Maria / Vespers
    Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings / Psallentes - Hendrik Vanden Abeele

  2. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

  3. Naxos 8.557896-97 [CDx2]
    La Rue: The Complete Magnificats / Three Salve Reginas
    VivaVoce - Peter Schubert

Salve regina III

4-part motet, survivng in a single source; uses the Marian chant.

  1. AS&V "Gaudeamus" 307
    La Rue: Missa de Sancta Cruce / Quadris: Lamentations
    Clerks' Group - Edward Wickham

Salve regina IV

4-part alternatim motet, surviving in a single source; uses the Marian chant and songs by Dufay & Binchois.

  1. Naxos 8.557896-97 [CDx2]
    La Rue: The Complete Magnificats / Three Salve Reginas
    VivaVoce - Peter Schubert

Salve regina V

4-part alternatim motet, surviving in a single source; uses the Marian chant.

  1. Naxos 8.557896-97 [CDx2]
    La Rue: The Complete Magnificats / Three Salve Reginas
    VivaVoce - Peter Schubert

Salve regina VI

4-part motet; uses the Marian chant.

  1. Hyperion 68150
    La Rue: Missa Nuncqua fue pena mayor / Missa Inviolata
    Brabant Ensemble - Stephen Rice

Salve regina - unspecified

These recordings do not specify which of the 6 settings.

  1. Archiv 2533377 [LP]
    Jacob Obrecht - Pierre de la Rue
    Motetten - Motets
    Pro Cantione Antiqua, London & The London Cornett and Sackbut Ensemble - Bruno Turner, dir.

  2. Archiv Produktion 2523 070 [LPx6]
    Geistliche Musik der Renaissance
    Pro Cantione Antiqua - Bruno Turner

    Archiv 445 667-2 (box, 445 668 / 445 674 on CD) [CDx7]
    The flowering of Renaissance choral music
    Geistliche Musik der Renaissance - Musique sacrée de la Renaissance
    Pro Cantione Antiqua - Bruno Turner, dir.

  3. Hyperion 67010
    La Rue: Missa de Feria / Missa Sancta Dei Genitrix
    Gothic Voices - Christopher Page

  4. L'Oiseau-lyre (France) OLLD 81 [LP, mono]
    Musiciens de la cour de Bourgogne, vol. II
    Maîtrise (avec choeur de flûtes à bec) de la Chapelle de Bourgogne - Bernardin Van Eeckhout, dir.

  5. ORF Shop CD 150 [CD]
    Pierre de La Rue - Missa De Sancto Job
    Orlando Consort

Sancta Maria virgo

3-part sacred tricinium, incipits only; shares material with La Rue's chansons.

    No known recording.

Si dormiero

3-part sacred tricinium, also known as Güretzsch & O mitis mater Christi. Frequently misattributed to Isaac and others.

  1. Archiv Produktion "Blue" 474 233-2 [CD]
    Music at the Court of Emperor Maximilian I
    Mitglieder des Concentus Musicus, Wien - N. Harnoncourt, cond.; Wiener Sängerknaben und Chorus Viennensis - U. Mund. cond.

  2. Cappella Nova Mundi (no number) [download]
    Renewals and Reincarnations
    Cappella Nova Mundi - William Kempster

  3. Eufoda 1349
    Prioris: Requiem
    Joris Verdin / Capilla Flamenca - Dirk Snellings

  4. Glossa "Nouvelle Vision" 921102 [CDx2]
    Res Musice: The Passion of Reason
    The Sour Cream Legacy
    Frans Brüggen / Kees Boeke / Walter van Hauwe

  5. Harmonia Mundi USA 90 7421
    Agricola: Chansons
    Michael Chance / Fretwork

Vexilla regis / Passio domini

4-part motet; uses hymn for the Holy Cross, and other sacred material.

  1. Arktos 98027CD
    Time
    Early Music Consort of Calgary

  2. AS&V "Gaudeamus" 307
    La Rue: Missa de Sancta Cruce / Quadris: Lamentations
    Clerks' Group - Edward Wickham

  3. Centaur 2316
    Lanterns of Fire
    Love and the Mystic in Renaissance Spain
    Live Oak and Company

  4. Cornetto 10007
    La Rue: Missa "O gloriosa Margaretha" / Vexilla Regis / Considera Israel
    Peñalosa Ensemble / Raimund Schächer

  5. EMI Reflexe 54082
    Pierre de la Rue: Missa Cum iocunditate / Motets
    Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier

  6. Harmonia mundi HMU 990 [LP]
    Basses Danses et Chansons 1450-1550
    Le Chansonnier de Marguerite d'Autriche - Le Livre des Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic, dir

  7. Musik Museum 13030
    Ein musikalisches Gipfeltreffen 1503
    La Rue Requiem / Isaac / Obrecht
    Capella de la Torre - Katharina Bäuml

  8. Naxos 8.554656
    La Rue: Mass of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin / Easter Mass
    Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin

  9. Obsidian 712 [CDx2]
    The Spy's Choirbook
    Petrus Alamire & the Court of Henry VIII
    Alamire / English Cornett & Sackbut Ensemble - David Skinner

  10. Valley Entertainment VLEC 15 025
    The best of Millenium of Music
    Behold and See
    Live Oak and Company

    Warner Classics 90296 73084 [CDx34]
    Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
    Hilliard Ensemble

Discography - Secular Works

Note that there is more confusion in attributions here than elsewhere. Some items are listed here provisionally.

Adieu comment

Attributed 5-part canonic chanson, surviving in a single source, incipits only.

  1. Cappella Nova Mundi (no number) [download]
    Renewals and Reincarnations
    Cappella Nova Mundi - William Kempster

Aprez regretz

Attributed 4-part rondeau, surviving in a single source.

  1. Ambronay AMY 007
    Carnetz secretz
    Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
    Les Jardins de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse-Quentin

Autant en emporte le vent

4-part chanson.

  1. Alpha 3013 [LP, 25 cm?]
    Polyphonies belges
    Chants polyphoniques de la Renaissance
    Le Groupe vocal Fritz Hoyois

  2. L'Anthologie sonore 27 (matrix AS-65, AS-71) [78rpm Europe]
    Johannes Brasart - Musique instrumentale vers 1500 / Instrumental Music c. 1500
    Dauby & Trio de Vieles de la Société Pro Musica Antiqua de Bruxelles - Safford Cape, dir.
    Société Pro Musica Antiqua de Bruxelles - Safford Cape, dir.

  3. Archiv Produktion APM 14 032 [LP, mono, Europe]
    IV. Research Period: The High Renaissance
    Series A: The Netherlanders from Josquin des Prés « Anonymous: 9 Chansons from the "Notenbücher der Margarete von Österreich" »
    Series G: Dance Music « Tielman Susato: 16 Danseryes »
    Pro Musica Antiqua - Safford Cape, dir.

  4. Eloquentia 1653 [CDx2]
    Chansons de la Renaissance
    Ensemble Obsidienne - Emmanuel Bonnardot

  5. Cantus 9607
    Vous ou la mort
    Canciones flamencas de amor cortés en el siglo XV
    Currende Consort / Capella Sancti Michaelis / Concerto Palatino - Erik van Nevel

  6. Calliope CAL 9408 [CD]
    L'amour de moy
    Chansons et improvisations de la Renaissance
    Josquin / Hayne / Busnoys / Bosfrin / De la Rue / Manuscrit de Bayeux
    Ensemble vocal et instrumental Obsidienne - Emmanuel Bonnardot, dir.

  7. CBS Masterworks 79 333 [LPx3]
    The Most beautiful madrigals - Les Plus beaux madrigaux - Die schönsten Madrigal
    Collegium Vocale, Köln - Wolfgang Fromme, cond.

  8. Centaur Records 2109
    The Art of Flemish Song
    In the Courts of Europe
    Live Oak

  9. Deutsche Gramophon - Archiv Produktion [Editor not stated] 629517/8 [LPx2]
    Flemish Music and society in the XVth and XVIth centuries - La musique flamande dans la société des XVe et XVIe siècles
    De Vlaamse Musiek in 15de en 16de eeuw - Die flämische Musik in der Gesellschaft des XV und XVI Jahrhunderts
    Pro Musica Antiqua - Safford Cape, dir.

  10. Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 1907 585634 2 [CD]
    Air Music
    Tales of Flying Creatures and Heavenly Breezes
    Capella de la Torre - Katharina Bäuml

  11. Disques Office 65477
    L'Album de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Josquin Desprez / Pierre de La Rue
    Ensemble La Sestina - Adriano Giardina

  12. Etcetera 1519 [CDx5]
    In the Footsteps of Petrus Alamire
    Various artists

  13. Eufoda 1166
    Isaac, Obrecht, De La Rue
    Capella Sancti Michaelis / Currende Consort - Erik Van Nevel

  14. Eufoda 1160/69 [CDx10]
    De Vlaamse Polyfonie
    Capella Sancti Michaelis / Currende Consort - Erik Van Nevel

    The Gramophone Shop "L'Anthologie Sonore" (21-30) [78rpm x 10]
    A synthesis of the musical arts: 14th to 18th centuries, vol. III
    Pro Musica Antiqua de Bruxelles - Safford Cape

  15. Harmonia mundi HMU 990 [LP]
    Basses Danses et Chansons 1450-1550
    Le Chansonnier de Marguerite d'Autriche - Le Livre des Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic, dir

  16. Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1453 [CD]
    Une Fête chez Rabelais
    Chansons et pièces instrumentales
    Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse

  17. Harmonia Mundi USA 907328
    The Toledo Summit
    Early 16th c. Spanish and Flemish Songs and Motets
    Orlando Consort

  18. Harmonia Mundi 290838.40 [CDx3]
    Chansons de la Renaissance
    Janequin / Josquin / etc.
    Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse

    Harmonia Mundi 590 8224 [CDx2]
    Les Plaisirs du Palais
    Clemens non Papa / Sermisy / etc.
    Ensemble Clément Janequin - Dominique Visse, dir.

    Haydn Society "L'Anthologie sonore" AS 4 [LP]
    L'Anthologie Sonore, volume I - Gregorian Chant to the 16th Century
    Record 4 - The 15th Century
    Soloists and Ensembles including the Pro Musica Antiqua Society, Brussels - Safford Cape, dir.
    and Les Paraphonistes de St-Jean des Matines - Guillaume de Van, dir.

  19. HMV HQM 1041 [LP, mono]
    French Songs
    A. Miskell & Elizabethan Consort - Nesbitt, cond.

  20. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

  21. Naxos 8.554744
    The A-La-Mi-Re Manuscripts
    Flemish Polyphonic Treasures for Charles V
    Josquin / De la Rue / Willaert
    Capilla Flamenca

  22. Radio Nederland 6808 436/437/438 [6808.432/3/4 printed on box] [LPx3, stereo]
    Autumn of the Middle Ages
    A history in words and music from the Low Countries
    Ensemble Syntagma Musicum - Kees Otten, cond. & Ensemble "Studio Laren" - Marijke Ferguson, cond.

A vous non autre

3-part rondeau; text altered in 2 sources.

  1. Et'cetera KTC 4011
    Dame de Deuil
    Musical Offerings for Marguerite of Austria (1480-1530)
    La Morra - Michal Gondko & Corina Marti, dirs.

  2. Etcetera KTC 9011 [CDx10]
    40th Anniversary Etcetera Records
    Early Music Box Set Collection

  3. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

Ce m'est tout ung

Attributed 4-part chanson, surviving in a single source.

    No known recording.

Ce n'est pas jeu

4-part rondeau.

  1. Ambronay AMY 007
    Carnetz secretz
    Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
    Les Jardins de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse-Quentin

  2. Arktos CD 20041
    One
    Ensemble de La Rue - William Kempster, dir.

  3. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

Cent mille regretz

5-part canonic chanson. Incorrectly attributed to Josquin by Attaingnant.

  1. Raum Klang RK 9501
    Salve festa dies
    Musik der Reformationszeit
    Bläser-Collegium Liepzig

C'est ma fortune

Attributed 4-part rondeau, surviving in a single source.

  1. Ambronay AMY 007
    Carnetz secretz
    Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
    Les Jardins de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse-Quentin

Changier ne veulx

Attributed 4-part rondeau, surviving in a single source.

    No known recording.

Cueurs desolez / Dies illa

Attributed 5-part motet-chanson, surviving in a single source. Uses the 3rd verse of Libera me from the Requiem mass; written on the death of Jean de Luxembourg, 1508. Sometimes confused with a similar title by Josquin.

  1. Alamire LUB 03
    Oh Flanders Free
    Music of the Flemish Renaissance
    Ockeghem / Josquin / Susato / La Rue
    Capilla Flamenca

  2. Ambronay AMY 007
    Carnetz secretz
    Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
    Les Jardins de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse-Quentin

  3. Brilliant Classics 96513 [CD]
    Fortune Infortune
    A portrait of Margaret of Austria
    Daniel Elgersma / Seldom Sene

  4. Et'Cetera KTC 1198 [CD]
    Venus-ghejancksel
    Chants and Madrigals from the Low Countries
    Spiegler, Castello, Toyohiko Satoh
    Note: May be La Rue's.

  5. Gaudeamus CD GAU 362 [CD]
    In Memoria
    Medieval Songs of Remembrance
    The Clerks' Group - Edward Wickham, dir.

  6. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

  7. Zig-Zag Territoires 110501
    Antoine de Févin: Requiem d'Anne de Bretagne
    Doulce Mémoire - Denis Raisin-Dadre

Dedans boutez

4-part chanson, surviving in a single source; probably written for the Bouton family. Originally listed with corrupted title Dedans bouton, but corrected by Kempster's discovery of the text.

  1. Cappella Nova Mundi (no number) [download]
    Renewals and Reincarnations
    Cappella Nova Mundi - William Kempster

De l'oeil de la fille du roy

4-part rondeau for Marguerite.

  1. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

Dueil et ennuy

Attributed 5-part canonic chanson.

    No known recording.

Dulces exuvie

4-part Latin secular work, of questionable attribution; text from the Aeneid.

  1. Musique en Wallonie MEW 525
    Dulcis Melancholia
    Biographie musicale de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Capilla Flamenca

  2. Naxos 8.554744
    The A-La-Mi-Re Manuscripts
    Flemish Polyphonic Treasures for Charles V
    Josquin / De la Rue / Willaert
    Capilla Flamenca

D'ung aultre aymer

5-part chanson, surviving in a single source, incipits only; uses the tenor of Ockeghem's rondeau.

    No known recording.

Een vroulic wesen

Sometimes-attributed, incipits only. Also attributed to Pipelare. Also spelled Ain frölich wesen, etc. Does not appear in Meconi's list.

  1. Challenge Classics 72880 [CD]
    The Feast of the Swan
    A Renaissance brotherhood at table
    Cappella Pratensis - Stratton Bull / Sollazzo Ensemble - Anna Danilevskaia

  2. Resonus Classics "Inventa" 1005 [CD]
    La la hö hö
    Sixteenth-Century Viol Music for the Richest Man in the World
    Linarol Consort

En espoir vis

4-part canonic chanson, surviving in a single source.

    No known recording.

Fors seulement, 4vv

4-part chanson, incipits only; uses the superius of Ockeghem's rondeau.

  1. AS&V Gaudeamus 168
    Ockeghem: Requiem / Missa Fors seulement
    The Clerks' Group - Edward Wickham

Fors seulement, 5vv

5-part canonic chanson, incipits only; uses the superius of Ockeghem's rondeau.

    No confirmed known recording.

Fors seulement - unspecified

These recordings do not specify which of the 2 settings.

  1. Archiv Produktion DGA 14323 [LP, mono]
    IV. Research Period - The High Renaissance, Series B: At the Imperial Court of Maximilian I «From the Repertoire of the Imperial Court Chapel»
    Wiener Sängerknaben und Chorus Viennensis, Concentus Musicus Wien - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, dir.

  2. Archiv Produktion "Blue" 474 233-2 [CD]
    Music at the Court of Emperor Maximilian I
    Mitglieder des Concentus Musicus, Wien - N. Harnoncourt, cond.; Wiener Sängerknaben und Chorus Viennensis - U. Mund. cond.

  3. Audite 97783 [CD]
    Basevi Codex
    Music At the Court of Margaret of Austria
    Dorothee Mields / Boreas Quartett Bremen

  4. Etcetera 1519 [CDx5]
    In the Footsteps of Petrus Alamire
    Various artists

  5. Eufoda 1166
    Isaac, Obrecht, De La Rue
    Capella Sancti Michaelis / Currende Consort - Erik Van Nevel

  6. Eufoda 1160/69 [CDx10]
    De Vlaamse Polyfonie
    Capella Sancti Michaelis / Currende Consort - Erik Van Nevel

Helas, fault il

Attributed 4-part chanson, surviving in a single source.

    No known recording.

Il est bien heureux

4-part chanson, surviving in a single source.

  1. Ambronay AMY 007
    Carnetz secretz
    Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
    Les Jardins de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse-Quentin

  2. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

Il fault morir

6-part chanson, incipts only, of questionable attribution. Uses a tenor of Compère.

    No known recording.

Il me fait mal

Attributed 3-part chanson, surviving in a single source; text possibly by La Rue.

  1. Archiv Produktion APM 14 032 [LP, mono, Europe]
    IV. Research Period: The High Renaissance
    Series A: The Netherlanders from Josquin des Prés « Anonymous: 9 Chansons from the "Notenbücher der Margarete von Österreich" »
    Series G: Dance Music « Tielman Susato: 16 Danseryes »
    Pro Musica Antiqua - Safford Cape, dir.

  2. Harmonia mundi HMU 990 [LP]
    Basses Danses et Chansons 1450-1550
    Le Chansonnier de Marguerite d'Autriche - Le Livre des Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic, dir

Il viendra le jour désiré

4-part chanson.

  1. Audite 97783 [CD]
    Basevi Codex
    Music At the Court of Margaret of Austria
    Dorothee Mields / Boreas Quartett Bremen

  2. Cantus 9607
    Vous ou la mort
    Canciones flamencas de amor cortés en el siglo XV
    Currende Consort / Capella Sancti Michaelis / Concerto Palatino - Erik van Nevel

  3. Centaur Records 2109
    The Art of Flemish Song
    In the Courts of Europe
    Live Oak

  4. Etcetera 1519 [CDx5]
    In the Footsteps of Petrus Alamire
    Various artists

  5. Eufoda 1166
    Isaac, Obrecht, De La Rue
    Capella Sancti Michaelis / Currende Consort - Erik Van Nevel

  6. Eufoda 1160/69 [CDx10]
    De Vlaamse Polyfonie
    Capella Sancti Michaelis / Currende Consort - Erik Van Nevel

  7. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

  8. Musique en Wallonie MEW 525
    Dulcis Melancholia
    Biographie musicale de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Capilla Flamenca

  9. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

  10. ORF Shop CD 150 [CD]
    Pierre de La Rue - Missa De Sancto Job
    Orlando Consort

  11. Virgin "Veritas" 7243 5 45458 2 5
    Amour, Amours
    Florilège des chansons françaises de la Renaissance - French chansons of the Renaissance - Chansons der Franzözischen Renaissance
    Ensemble Gilles Binchois - Dominique Vellard, dir.

Incessament mon pauvre cueur lamente

5-part canonic chanson, also known as Sic deus dilexit. La Rue's most widely distributed secular work. Attributed incorrectly to Josquin by Attaingnant; sometimes confused with a similar title by Josquin.

  1. Centaur 2548
    Josquin / Isaac: Music of the Renaissance
    Sex Chordæ Consort of Viols - John Dornenburg
    Note: Possibly La Rue's.

  2. Les Discophiles français 33 [78 r.p.m.]
    Josquin des Prés - Chansons françaises III
    Ensemble vocal Marcel Couraud - Marcel Couraud, dir.
    Note: Possibly La Rue's.

  3. Les Discophiles français 31/4 (set A7) [78 r.p.m.]
    Josquin des Prés - 13 Chansons françaises
    Ensemble vocal Marcel Couraud - Marcel Couraud, dir.
    Note: Possible La Rue content.

  4. Raum Klang "Edition Apollon" 10105
    La Rue: Incessament
    Amarcord

  5. Raum Klang 2801
    Karl der Kühne und die burgundische Hofmusik
    Amarcord

J'ay mis mon cueur

Attributed 3-part chanson, surviving in a single source; uses the monophonic virelai.

  1. Ambronay AMY 007
    Carnetz secretz
    Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
    Les Jardins de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse-Quentin

Jam sauche

Sometimes-attributed, incipits only. Also spelled Iam sauche. Does not appear in Meconi's list.

  1. Naxos 8.554744
    The A-La-Mi-Re Manuscripts
    Flemish Polyphonic Treasures for Charles V
    Josquin / De la Rue / Willaert
    Capilla Flamenca
    Note: Further misattribution in program.

  2. Resonus Classics "Inventa" 1005 [CD]
    La la hö hö
    Sixteenth-Century Viol Music for the Richest Man in the World
    Linarol Consort

Je n'ay regretz

Attributed 5-part canonic chanson, surviving in a single source, incipts only.

    No known recording.

Je ne dis mot

Attributed 6-part canonic chanson, surviving in a single source.

  1. Disques Office 65477
    L'Album de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Josquin Desprez / Pierre de La Rue
    Ensemble La Sestina - Adriano Giardina

Je ne scay plus

Attributed 3-part chanson, surviving in a single source.

  1. Arte Nova 39105
    Tabulatur des Clemens Hör
    René Clemencic
    Note: May be La Rue's.

Las, helas, las, seray-je-repris?

Attributed 4-part rondeau, surviving in a single source.

    No known recording.

Ma bouche rit

4-part chanson, surviving in a single source, incipts only; uses Ockeghem's tenor & material from his Je n'ay deuil.

  1. Audite 97783 [CD]
    Basevi Codex
    Music At the Court of Margaret of Austria
    Dorothee Mields / Boreas Quartett Bremen

Me fauldra il

Attributed 4-part chanson, surviving in a single source; text probably by Marguerite.

  1. Et'cetera KTC 4011
    Dame de Deuil
    Musical Offerings for Marguerite of Austria (1480-1530)
    La Morra - Michal Gondko & Corina Marti, dirs.

  2. Etcetera KTC 9011 [CDx10]
    40th Anniversary Etcetera Records
    Early Music Box Set Collection

Mijn hert

4-part Flemish song; among La Rue's most popular. Misattributed to Obrecht.

  1. Alamire LUB 03
    Oh Flanders Free
    Music of the Flemish Renaissance
    Ockeghem / Josquin / Susato / La Rue
    Capilla Flamenca

  2. Alpha DB 129 [LP]
    Musique flamande - Renaissance et Baroque
    Ensemble Alarius & Quatuor vocal de Bruxelles

  3. Arsonor 012
    Chansons et madrigaux, 16ème et 17ème siècles
    Laudantes Consort - Guy Janssens

  4. CNR 74 8002 [LP]
    Muziek uit de Middeleeuwen en renaissance
    Studio Laren - Marijke Ferguson, cond.

  5. Cyprès 1630 [CDx12]
    The Golden Age of the European Polyphony
    Laudantes Consort - Guy Janssens

  6. Electrola (EMI) SME 91761 / 62 [LPx2]
    Lebendige Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance - Cinq siècles de joyeuse musique - Musica Medioevale
    Ensemble Syntagma Musicum - Kees Otten, dir.

  7. EMI 1A 137-26510 / 11 [LPx2, stereo, gatefold sleeve]
    Vijf Eeuwen Muziek
    Composities uit de 13e t/m 17e Eeuw
    Syntagma Musicum of Amsterdam - Kees Otten, dir.

  8. Et'Cetera KTC 1198 [CD]
    Venus-ghejancksel
    Chants and Madrigals from the Low Countries
    Spiegler, Castello, Toyohiko Satoh

  9. Etcetera 1519 [CDx5]
    In the Footsteps of Petrus Alamire
    Various artists

  10. Et'cetera KTC 4011
    Dame de Deuil
    Musical Offerings for Marguerite of Austria (1480-1530)
    La Morra - Michal Gondko & Corina Marti, dirs.

  11. Etcetera KTC 9011 [CDx10]
    40th Anniversary Etcetera Records
    Early Music Box Set Collection

  12. Eufoda 1155
    Renaissance-Polyfonie in Brugge
    The Songbook of Zeghere van Male
    Capilla Flamenca

  13. Eufoda 1163
    Songs and Dances from Flanders
    Capella Sancti Michaelis / Currende Consort - Erik Van Nevel

  14. Eufoda 1160/69 [CDx10]
    De Vlaamse Polyfonie
    Capella Sancti Michaelis / Currende Consort - Erik Van Nevel

  15. Harmonia mundi HMU 990 [LP]
    Basses Danses et Chansons 1450-1550
    Le Chansonnier de Marguerite d'Autriche - Le Livre des Basses Danses de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Clemencic Consort - René Clemencic, dir

  16. His Master's Voice (EMI) HQS 1196 [LP, stereo]
    Music of the Renaissance
    Syntagma Musicum - Kees Otten, dir.

  17. Musick's Monument Multimedia projecten 3-4-5 [2CDs+CDROM]
    Muziek van de Prins van Oranjen
    Het Musick's Monument Vocaal Ensemble - Brian Fieldhouse

  18. Musik Museum 13042 [CD]
    Global Player Maximilian
    Musikalisches Networking um 1500
    Ensemble Rosarum Flores

  19. Naxos 8.554744
    The A-La-Mi-Re Manuscripts
    Flemish Polyphonic Treasures for Charles V
    Josquin / De la Rue / Willaert
    Capilla Flamenca

  20. Passacaille 945
    Hans Neusidler: Ein newgeordnet künstlich Lautenbuch
    Bart Roose

  21. Seraphim SIC-6052 [LPx3]
    The Seraphim Guide to Renaissance Music
    72 vocal and instrumental works from the 13th to 17th centuries
    Syntagma Musicum, Amsterdam - Kees Otten, dir.

    Telefunken "Das Alte Werk" AWT 8 040 [EP, 45 r.p.m., mono]
    Frühe flämische Musik
    Studio der frühen Musik

  22. Telefunken "Das Alte Werk" AWT 9432-C [LP, mono]
    Frühe Musik: England - Flandern - Deutschland - Spanien
    Studio der Frühen Musik

  23. Telefunken " Das Alte Werk" TK 11515-1 & 11515-2 [LPx2]
    Musik der Dürerzeit - Music during the Age of Durer
    Monteverdi Chor, Hamburg - Jurgen Jurgens, dir.; Capella Antiqua, München - Konrad Ruhland, dir.; Studio der frühen Musik - Thomas Binkley, dir.

    Telefunken "Das Alte Werk" 635067 DX [LPx2]
    Frühe Musik - Early Music
    Studio der frühen Musik

    Telefunken "Das Alte Werk" 635605 ER [LPx2]
    Musik der Lutherzeit
    Studio der Frühen Musik - Capella Antiqua München; Monteverdi-Chor Hamburg

  24. Telemann Gezelschap PLP/VW 34712 [LP]
    (title unknown)
    Consortium Antiquum - Jean-Pierre Biesemans, cond.

Plorer, gemir, crier / Requiem

4-part motet-chanson, surviving in a single source; uses the Requiem introit, probably intended as a lament for Ockeghem.

  1. Aeon 1226
    Plorer, Gemir, Crier...
    Hommage à La "Voix d'Or" de Ockeghem
    Diabolus in Musica - Antoine Guerber

  2. Ancient Voice Records 002
    Extreme Singing
    La Rue Requiem and other Low Masterpieces of the Renaissance
    Vox Early Music Ensemble - Christopher Wolverton

  3. Audite 97783 [CD]
    Basevi Codex
    Music At the Court of Margaret of Austria
    Dorothee Mields / Boreas Quartett Bremen

  4. EMI Reflexe 54082
    Pierre de la Rue: Missa Cum iocunditate / Motets
    Hilliard Ensemble - Paul Hillier

  5. Glossa GCD P32105 [CD]
    Cecus
    Colours, blindness and memorial: Alexander Agricola and his contemporaries
    Graindelavoix; - Björn Schmelzer, dir.

  6. Warner Classics 90296 73084 [CDx34]
    Josquin and the Franco-Flemish School
    Hilliard Ensemble

Plusieurs regretz

Attributed 4-part chanson, surviving in a single source. Can be confused with a 5-part setting by Josquin.

  1. Signum 025
    Master of Musicians
    Songs and instrumental music by Josquin Des Pres, his pupils and contemporaries
    Musica Antiqua of London - Philip Thorby

Pour ce que je suis

4-part chanson, also known as Puisque je suis. Kempster suggests that this is really a rondeau with partially lost text.

  1. Audite 97783 [CD]
    Basevi Codex
    Music At the Court of Margaret of Austria
    Dorothee Mields / Boreas Quartett Bremen

  2. Cappella Nova Mundi (no number) [download]
    Renewals and Reincarnations
    Cappella Nova Mundi - William Kempster

  3. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

Pourquoy non

4-part chanson.

  1. Archiv Produktion APM 14 032 [LP, mono, Europe]
    IV. Research Period: The High Renaissance
    Series A: The Netherlanders from Josquin des Prés « Anonymous: 9 Chansons from the "Notenbücher der Margarete von Österreich" »
    Series G: Dance Music « Tielman Susato: 16 Danseryes »
    Pro Musica Antiqua - Safford Cape, dir.

  2. Archiv 457 609
    A Flemish Feast
    Flemish Renaissance Wind Music
    Piffaro Renaissance Band - Joan Kimball & Robert Wiemken

  3. Arktos CD 20041
    One
    Ensemble de La Rue - William Kempster, dir.

  4. Eloquentia 1653 [CDx2]
    Chansons de la Renaissance
    Ensemble Obsidienne - Emmanuel Bonnardot

  5. Calliope CAL 9408 [CD]
    L'amour de moy
    Chansons et improvisations de la Renaissance
    Josquin / Hayne / Busnoys / Bosfrin / De la Rue / Manuscrit de Bayeux
    Ensemble vocal et instrumental Obsidienne - Emmanuel Bonnardot, dir.

  6. CBS Masterworks 79 333 [LPx3]
    The Most beautiful madrigals - Les Plus beaux madrigaux - Die schönsten Madrigal
    Collegium Vocale, Köln - Wolfgang Fromme, cond.

  7. (Deutsche Gramophon - Archiv Produktion [Editor not stated]) 629517/8 [LPx2]
    Flemish Music and society in the XVth and XVIth centuries - La musique flamande dans la société des XVe et XVIe siècles
    De Vlaamse Musiek in 15de en 16de eeuw - Die flämische Musik in der Gesellschaft des XV und XVI Jahrhunderts
    Pro Musica Antiqua - Safford Cape, dir.

  8. Discophiles français 330222 / 24 [LPx3, mono]
    Anthologie de la chanson française de 1450 à 1550, de Gilles Binchois à Guillaume Costeley
    Ensemble vocal Blanchard - Roger Blanchard, dir.

  9. Disques Office 65477
    L'Album de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Josquin Desprez / Pierre de La Rue
    Ensemble La Sestina - Adriano Giardina

  10. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

  11. Musique en Wallonie MEW 525
    Dulcis Melancholia
    Biographie musicale de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Capilla Flamenca

  12. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

  13. Pacific Coast Friends of Music PCFM 1001 [LP]
    A Treasury of Early Music
    (Live Concert Recordings, 1973-74 Series)
    Musica Pacifica - Paul Vorwerk, dir.

  14. Radio Nederland 6808 436/437/438 [6808.432/3/4 printed on box] [LPx3, stereo]
    Autumn of the Middle Ages
    A history in words and music from the Low Countries
    Ensemble Syntagma Musicum - Kees Otten, cond. & Ensemble "Studio Laren" - Marijke Ferguson, cond.

  15. Titanic 21 [LP]
    In Praise of Folly
    A musical voyage through Erasmus's 16th century
    Greenwood Consort - Boris Nelson

Pourquoy tant

4-part chanson.

  1. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

  2. Musique en Wallonie MEW 525
    Dulcis Melancholia
    Biographie musicale de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Capilla Flamenca

  3. Musique en Wallonie 1159 [CDx3]
    La Rue: Musical Portrait
    Capilla Flamenca

  4. ORF Shop CD 150 [CD]
    Pierre de La Rue - Missa De Sancto Job
    Orlando Consort

Pour ung jamais

3-part chanson, also known as Fraw margretsen lied, Non debemus gratias & Pour vous james; text by Marguerite.

  1. Ambronay AMY 007
    Carnetz secretz
    Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
    Les Jardins de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse-Quentin

  2. Disques Office 65477
    L'Album de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Josquin Desprez / Pierre de La Rue
    Ensemble La Sestina - Adriano Giardina

  3. Et'cetera KTC 4011
    Dame de Deuil
    Musical Offerings for Marguerite of Austria (1480-1530)
    La Morra - Michal Gondko & Corina Marti, dirs.

  4. Etcetera KTC 9011 [CDx10]
    40th Anniversary Etcetera Records
    Early Music Box Set Collection

  5. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

  6. L'Oiseau-Lyre "Florilegium" DSLO 12BB 203-6 [4 LPs]
    Musicke of Sundrie Kindes
    An Introduction to Secular Renaissance Music, 1480-1620
    The Consort of Musicke, - Anthony Rooley, dir.

  7. ORF Shop CD 150 [CD]
    Pierre de La Rue - Missa De Sancto Job
    Orlando Consort

  8. Phaedra 92069
    La déclinaison de la femme
    Around Margaret of Austria
    Encantar

  9. Radio Nederland 6808 436/437/438 [6808.432/3/4 printed on box] [LPx3, stereo]
    Autumn of the Middle Ages
    A history in words and music from the Low Countries
    Ensemble Syntagma Musicum - Kees Otten, cond. & Ensemble "Studio Laren" - Marijke Ferguson, cond.

Quant il survient

Attributed 4-part rondeau, surviving in a single source.

  1. Cappella Nova Mundi (no number) [download]
    Renewals and Reincarnations
    Cappella Nova Mundi - William Kempster

  2. CBS Masterworks 79 333 [LPx3]
    The Most beautiful madrigals - Les Plus beaux madrigaux - Die schönsten Madrigal
    Collegium Vocale, Köln - Wolfgang Fromme, cond.

  3. Disques Office 65477
    L'Album de Marguerite d'Autriche
    Josquin Desprez / Pierre de La Rue
    Ensemble La Sestina - Adriano Giardina

Saillés avant

5-part chanson, incipts only, of questionable attribution.

  1. Cappella Nova Mundi (no number) [download]
    Renewals and Reincarnations
    Cappella Nova Mundi - William Kempster

Secretz regretz

4-part chanson, also known as Carmen & Carmen in la.

  1. Ambronay AMY 007
    Carnetz secretz
    Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
    Les Jardins de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse-Quentin

  2. Arktos CD 20041
    One
    Ensemble de La Rue - William Kempster, dir.

  3. Harmonia Mundi USA 907328
    The Toledo Summit
    Early 16th c. Spanish and Flemish Songs and Motets
    Orlando Consort

  4. Hyperion 68453 [CD]
    Queen of Hearts
    The Gesualdo Six - Owain Park

  5. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

  6. Resonus Classics "Inventa" 1005 [CD]
    La la hö hö
    Sixteenth-Century Viol Music for the Richest Man in the World
    Linarol Consort

Tous les regretz

4-part rondeau refrain.

  1. Association Pierre de la Rue [no number] [CD]
    La Rue: Missa Nunca fué pena mayor / Missa Tous les regretz
    Ars Antiqua de Paris - Michel Sanvoisin

  2. Gyre Music 10032
    Piva
    Renaissance Song of Italy and Spain
    Live Oak

  3. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

  4. ORF Shop OS 2 004 820 [CDx2]
    Margarete - Maximilian I
    Musik um 1500
    Capilla Flamenca / La Caccia / Knaben de Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino Aalst / Schola Gregoriana Lovaniensis / Joris Verdin - Dirk Snellings

  5. Phaedra 92069
    La déclinaison de la femme
    Around Margaret of Austria
    Encantar

  6. Resonus Classics "Inventa" 1005 [CD]
    La la hö hö
    Sixteenth-Century Viol Music for the Richest Man in the World
    Linarol Consort

Tous nobles cueurs

3-part rondeau refrain.

  1. Ambronay AMY 007
    Carnetz secretz
    Marguerite d'Autriche (1480-1530)
    Les Jardins de Courtoisie - Anne Delafosse-Quentin

  2. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

  3. ORF Shop OS 2 004 820 [CDx2]
    Margarete - Maximilian I
    Musik um 1500
    Capilla Flamenca / La Caccia / Knaben de Schola Cantorum Cantate Domino Aalst / Schola Gregoriana Lovaniensis / Joris Verdin - Dirk Snellings

  4. Phaedra 92069
    La déclinaison de la femme
    Around Margaret of Austria
    Encantar

Trop plus secret

4-part chanson.

  1. Arktos CD 20041
    One
    Ensemble de La Rue - William Kempster, dir.

  2. Centaur Records 2109
    The Art of Flemish Song
    In the Courts of Europe
    Live Oak

  3. Hungaroton 32018
    Pierre de la Rue
    Chansons from the Album of Marguerite of Austria
    Corvina Consort - Zoltán Kalmanovits

Discography - Misattributed, Doubtful Works or Confused, Unknown Title

  1. Celestial Harmonies 13022
    Officium tenebrarum
    Gregorian chants by Pierre de la Rue, Johannes Gardano, Bernardus Ycart
    Students' Choir Utrecht - Jan Boogaarts
    Note: Includes Lamentations, now considered not to be by La Rue.

  2. Collegium Records JE 102 / 103 [LP]
    Flemish and Burgundian Music in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    The Columbia University Collegium Musicum - Richard Taruskin, dir.
    Note: Contains an "Ita missa est" listed as by La Rue.

  3. Cornetto COR 10006
    Pierre de La Rue: Lamentationes Jeremiae
    Heinrich Isaac: Oratio Jeremiae Prophetae SW German CCho Tübingen – Rolf Maier-Karius
    Note: Includes Lamentations, now considered not to be by La Rue.

  4. Gotham Records "The French Broadcasting System in North America" GRC 10741 / 10742 [LPx2, auto. coupling]
    Masterworks from France - Program 53 & 54
    French Music and French Musicians: P. de la Rue, G. Costeley, H. Barraud
    Julien Falk
    Choral Madrigal Group - René Alix
    Note: Contains "D'ung desplaisir" by Robert de la Rue.

  5. Gotham Recording « The French Broadcasting System in North America » GRC 3835 / 3836 [LPx2, mono, 16 in., auto. coupling]
    Masterworks from France - Program no. 257 & no. 258
    Pygmalion / Marius Constant – Choral 15th-16th / Josquin des Pres, Pierre de La Rue
    Various performers.
    Note: Contains an untitled La Rue track.

  6. Lyrichord 8021
    Pierre de la Rue: Missa de Sancta Anna / Lamentatione Jeremiæ
    Schola Discantus - Kevin Moll
    Note: Contains the Lamentations, which are now considered to be by Févin and/or Mahu.

  7. Naxos 8.554744
    The A-La-Mi-Re Manuscripts
    Flemish Polyphonic Treasures for Charles V
    Josquin / De la Rue / Willaert
    Capilla Flamenca
    Note: Contains "Soubz ce tumbel" now thought to be by Josquin.

  8. ORF 333 [CDx2]
    Media Vita / Intabolatura di Balli
    Vokalsolisten Ratisbona - Thomas E. Bauer
    Note: Contains part of the Lamentations, which are now considered to be by Févin and/or Mahu.

  9. Pleiades P 252 [LP, stereo]
    Historical Anthology of Music in Performance
    Late 15th-Century and Early 16th-Century Music
    The University of Chicago Collegium Musicum - Howard M. Brown, dir.; Southern Illinois University Collegium Musicum - Wesley K. Morgan, dir. & Christopher Williams
    Note: Lists an untitled Kyrie by La Rue.


It is certainly my hope that the time spent compiling this discography will be rewarded by musicians who go on to fill it.

See also William Kempster's "complete" La Rue scores (including audio files).

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Todd M. McComb