Obrecht/ Beauty Farm - Masses Condition:New he recorded gospel songs with

he recorded gospel songs with the fire and passion with which he'd recorded blues

song-filled look at contemporary black life also stars Esther Rolle

This arrangement

blending avant-garde

Obrecht/ Beauty Farm - Masses Condition:New he recorded gospel songs withThe music of the Renaissance appears to reflect little of the dangers, horrors and violent conflicts of it's time. Music written during the Hundred Years War or the French invasion of Italy gives hardly any impression to today's ears of the precariousness of existence of which it's composers, singers and listeners must have continually been aware. Nor do the two masses by Jacob Obrecht (1457 8 1505) on this recording betray anything of the restless