Ballades du 14e siècle

Ballades du 14e siècle - Ballads of the Fourteenth Century
Guermant, Anspach, Marcus, Bauwens, Desèches
L'Anthologie sonore 63 [78rpm France]
The Gramophone Shop « L'Anthologie sonore » AS 63 [78rpm, USA]

Production number on label; matrix number engraved on disc
side 1: AS 138; M6-?
side 2: AS 139; M6-?

Contents:

    Francesco Landino (aka Landini), Florence, Bibl. Laurenziana, Ms. Med. Pal. 87, f. 133v
  1. Gran piant' agli occhi

  2. —
    Matteo de Perugia (aka Perusio), Modena, Extense Lib., lat. 568, f. 9r
  3. Plus onques dame n'a mercy

Playing time: ??' ??"

Performers:
[1] La Société Pro Musica Antiqua, Brussels
H. Guermant (soprano), Frédéric Anspach (tenor) with alto viol, medieval harp, soprano recorder
Safford Cape, dir.; Curt Sachs, art. dir.
[2] Trio of viols
Marcus, Bauwens, Dusèches
Safford Cape, dir.; Curt Sachs, art. dir.

Recording site and date:
Paris, France [1937];
Rel.: 1937 or later

Compilation:
The Gramophone Shop « L'Anthologie sonore » (61-70) [78rpm x 10] A synthesis of the musical arts: 14th to 18th centuries, vol. VII
Haydn Society « L'Anthologie sonore » AS 2: [LP, mono] The 13th and 14th Centuries
Haydn Society « L'Anthologie sonore » Set HS.AS-A [LPx5, mono] L'Anthologie sonore vol. I.

Comments:
Information from owned LP and Bn-F; 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", 1948 ed.

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