Guillaume Dufay (vers 1400-1474)

Guillaume Dufay (vers 1400-1474 / c. 1400-1474)
La Société Pro Musica Antiqua de Bruxelles - Safford Cape, dir.
L'Anthologie sonore 35 (matrix AS-66, AS-67) [78rpm France]
The Gramophone Shop "L'Anthologie sonore" AS 35 [78rpm, USA]

Contents:

    Guillaume Dufay: Denkmäler der Tonkunst
  1. Missa "Se la face ay pale": Kyrie

  2. ----
    Guillaume Dufay, Denkmäler der Tonkunst
  3. Anthem-Motet: Alma Redemptoris Mater

Playing time: ??' ??"

Performers:
La Société Pro Musica Antiqua de Bruxelles - Safford Cape, dir.; Curt Sachs, art. dir.

Recording site and date:
Paris, France [before july 1935, from Gagnepain, 1936 from Bn-Opale plus];
Rel.: ca 1936.

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.

Comments:
Information from owned 78rpm french release, owned LP and Bn-Opale plus; also from Revue belge de Musicologie, Vol. XXXIV-XXXV (1980-1981): Bernard Gagnepain - Safford Cape et le "miracle" Pro musica antiqua (p. 212); and also "The Gramophone Shop Encyclopedia of Recorded Music", 1942 ed.
Number M6 83291 (?) & M6 83292 (?) also appear engraved, but partly covered by paper label, on the shellac of disc. 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.

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