Mouton: Missa Tu es Petrus available on April 28 2015 from Amazon for 12.73
Jean Mouton: Missa Tu es Petrus (Music CD) available on March 29 2015 from Base for 11.19
UPC bar code 034571179339 ξ1 registered April 28 2015
UPC bar code 034571179339 ξ2 registered September 27 2014
Product category is MUSIC CD - CD - Classical Audio
Manufacturered by Hyperion
Product weight is 0.22 lbs.
Jean Mouton was a Renaissance French composer and choirmaster, much acknowledged but more rarely recorded, who wrote a body of music that's both technically inventive and immediately appealing. Here Stephen Rice and The Brabant Ensemble - renowned exponents of sixteenth-century Franco-Flemish repertoire - perform all of Mouton's eight-part music, two four-part motets, and his only five-part Mass setting, the Missa Tu es Petrus. The latter is characterized by light, clear textures and a soaring cantus firmus, while the double-choir Nesciens mater is rightly famous for its ingenious canon. Sheer compositional skill aside, all these works demonstrate Mouton's vivid and original imagination - one that has the ability to speak directly to our time.