Guillaume de Machaut: Messe dite du Sacre de Charles V (1364)

Guillaume de Machaut: Messe dite du Sacre de Charles V (1364) / Mass said to have been composed for the Coronation of Charles V (1364)

Les Paraphonistes de Saint-Jean-des-Matines, Chorus and Brass Ensemble - Guillaume de Van, dir.
L'Anthologie sonore 31/32 (matrix AS-74, AS-75/AS-77, AS-76) [78rpm x2, Europe]
The Gramophone Shop "L'Anthologie sonore" AS 31/32 [78rpm x2, USA]
L'Anthologie sonore 1803 LD [LP, 17cm, mono]
Adès "L'Anthologie sonore" MS 17 AS 532 [LP, 17cm, mono]

Contents:

Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre-Dame, Paris, Bibl. Nat., frç Mss 1584, 1585, 9221, 222545, 222546


Disc # 31

1. Credo
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   Credo

Disc # 32

2. Sanctus

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3. Agnus Dei
4. Ite Missa est

Playing time: 8' 00" + (3' 30" + 2' 30" +1' 00") = 15' 00"

Performers: Les Paraphonistes de Saint-Jean-des-Matines (Choir & Brass) - Guillaume de Van, dir.; Curt Sachs, art. dir.

Recording site and date:
Paris, France [1936];
Rel. ca 1936 (AS 32), 1953 (1803)

Compilation:
The Gramophone Shop "L'Anthologie Sonore" (31-40) [78rpm x 10] A synthesis of the musical arts: 14th to 18th centuries, vol. IV
Haydn Society "L'Anthologie sonore" AS 3 [LP, mono] The 14th & 15th Centuries: Machault and Dufay.
Haydn Society "L'Anthologie sonore" Set HS.AS-A [LPx5, mono] L'Anthologie sonore vol. I.

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Revue Disques (Vol.-p.): 56-262 (april 25, 1953)

Comments:
Information from owned 78rpm french release, owned LP and Bn-Opale plus; and also "The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music", 1942 ed.
Number M6 83628 & M6 83629 also appears engraved on the shellac of disc # 32. According to Jerome F. Weber, this disc was probably made in Chatou, France. On the paper label appears "Étiquette provisoire", probably a very early release.
Listening to this recording is purely an historical pleasure, the sound quality being very poor; it is also interesting when you listen to several versions of this mass in chronological order to see the evolution from the quite heavy instrumental version of that period to the a capella style of modern versions.

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