Guillaume de Machaut: Ballades et Virelai

Guillaume de Machaut: Ballades et Virelai - Guillaume de Machaut (c. 1330-1377): Ballads & Virelai

Société Pro Musica Antiqua, Bruxelles - Safford Cape, dir.
L'Anthologie sonore 67 (matrix AS-140, AS-135) [78rpm, Europe]
The Gramophone Shop "L'Anthologie sonore" AS 67 [78rpm, USA]

Contents:

Guillaume de Machaut, Paris, Bibl. Nat., frç. Ms. 1584, f. 471v

1. Double ballade: Quant Theseüs

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Guillaume de Machaut, Paris, Bibl. Nat., frç. Ms. 1584, f. 468r

2. Ballade: Je puis trop bien

Guillaume de Machaut, Paris, Bibl. Nat., frç. Ms. 1584, f. 494v

3. Virelai: De tout sui

Performers:
[1] La Société Pro Musica Antiqua, Brussels
Franz Mertens (tenor) with soprano recorder, lute and tenor viol
Safford Cape, dir.; Curt Sachs, art. dir.
[2] La Société Pro Musica Antiqua, Brussels
E. Jacquier (tenor), Franz Mertens (tenor) witn tenor recorder, lute, tenor viol
Safford Cape, dir.; Curt Sachs, art. dir.
[3] La Société Pro Musica Antiqua, Brussels
H. Guermant with medieval harp
Safford Cape, dir.; Curt Sachs, art. dir.

Playing time: ??' ??"

Recording site and date:
Paris, France [before july 1938];
Rel.: before july 1938

Compilation:
The Gramophone Shop "L'Anthologie Sonore" (61-70) [78rpm x 10] A synthesis of the musical arts: 14th to 18th centuries, vol. 6
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 LP and BnF; 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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