Histoire de la Musique vocale, vol. 1-2

Histoire de la Musique vocale, vol. 1-2 - Du grégorien à 1750
Danish Soloists and Ensembles - Mogens Woldike, dir. & Les Petits chanteurs de la Renaissance - Marcel Noyre & Jean Pagot, cond.
Club national du disque CND 4/5 [LPx2, mono, Europe]
Erato LDE 3018/19 [LPx2, mono, Europe]

Contents:

    LP-1

    Gregorian chant:
  1. Antiphon: Laus Deo Patri
    Psalm 113: Laudete pueri
    Alleluia: Vidimus stellam
    Anon. (Wipo ?), 11th c.:
    Sequence: Victimae Paschali

    2. Anon., Trouvère, 12-13th c.:
  2. Song: Or la truix
    Neidhart von Reuenthal:
    Minnelied: Willekommen Mayenschein

    3. Anon., 9th c.:
  3. Parallel Organum: Rex caeli, Domine
    Anon., 12th c.:
    Free Organum: Agnus Dei
    Anon., School of St. Martial, 12th c.:
    Melismatic organum: Benedicamus Domino
    Pérotin:
    Organum: Alleluya (Nativitas)

    4. Anon., School of Notre Dame, 13th c.:
  4. Motet: En non Diu! - Quant voi - Elius in Oriente
    Anon., 13th-14th c. Las Huelgas codex:
    Conductus: De castitati thalamo
    Guillaume de Machaut: Messe "Notre Dame"
    Agnus Dei (I)

    5. Francesco Landini:
  5. Ballata: Chi piu le vol supere
    Gilles Binchois:
    Chanson: Adieu m'amour et ma maistresse

    6. Guillaume Dufay: Messe "Se la face ay pale"
  6. Kyrie
    Johannes Ockeghem: Missa "Prolationum"
    Sanctus (I)

    7. ----
    Jacob Obrecht:
  7. Motet: Parce Domine
    Josquin Desprez
    Motet: Ave Maria

    8. Thomas Crequillon:
  8. Chanson: Pour ung plaisir
    Clément Jannequin:
    Ce sont gallans
    Claudin de Sermisy:
    Hau le boys

    9. Orlando de Lassus
  9. Motet: tristis est anima mea
    Giovanni Palestrina: Missa "Veni sponsa Christi"
    Agnus Dei
    Tomas Luis de Victoria
    Motet: Ave Maria

    10. Claude Goudimel
  10. Psaume 133
    William Byrd
    Ego sum panis vivus

    11. LP-2

    Lucas Marenzio
  11. Madrigal: S'io parto i'moro
    John Bennet
    Madrigal: Thyrsis, Sleepest Thou

    12. Guillaume Bouzignac
  12. Motet: Jubilate Deo
    Eustache du Caurroy: Missa "Pro defunctis"
    Requiem

    13. Giulio Caccini
  13. Madrigal for one voice and lute: Dovro dunque morire
    Claudio Monteverdi
    Recitative: Tu se morta
    Giocomo Carissimi: Judicium Salomonis
    Scene: Afferte gladium

    14. Heinrich Schütz
  14. Sacred Cantata: O Herr, hilf

    15. Jean-Philippe Rameau: Caster et Pollux
  15. Scene: Séjour de l'éternelle paix

    16. George Frideric Handel: Rinaldo
  16. Scene: Recitative, Sinfonia & Air
    George Frideric Handel: Solomon
    Choir: Draw the Thear from Hopeless Love

    17. Johann-Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew's Passion
  17. Arioso: Ach Golgotha
    Johann-Sebastian Bach: Cantata No. 4
    Choral: Christ lag in Totesbanden
    Choir: Es war ein wunderlicher Krieg

Playing time: ??' ??"

Performers:
[1], [3a-c] Schola Gregoriana of Copenhagen - Bernard Lewkovitch, dir.
[2] Holger Nørgaard (bass)
[3d] Erling Thorborg (tenor), Egon Sørensen, Copenhagen Univ. Male Choir - Niels Møller, cond.
[4a] Christian Thodberg (recorder), Egon Sørensen, Hans Erik Deckert (viola da gamba)
[4b] Women's Voice of the University of Copenhagen - Niels Møller, cond.
[4c] Niels Brincker (tenor), Hans Erik Deckert (viola da gamba)
[5a] Dagmar Schou (contralto), Christian Thodberg (recorder)
[5b]-[7] Copenhagen Boys' & Men's Choir - Niels Møller, cond.
[8a] Copenhagen Univ. Choir - Niels Møller, cond.
[8b]-[8c] artists not specified precisely
[10a], [12] Les Petits chanteurs de la Renaissance - Marcel Noyre & Jean Pagot, dir.
[9a]-[9b], [10b], [11], [13]- [17] artists not specified precisely: Danish Soloists and Ensembles - Mogens Woldike, dir.

Recording site and date:
Unknown [1954 or prior]

Excerpts:
[1]-[8a] Haydn Society recording HSL 2072 Masterpieces of Music before 1750, vol. 1 - An Anthology of Musical Examples from Gregorian Chant to J.S. Bach
[9a]-[9b], [10b], [11], [13]- [14] Haydn Society recording HSL 2073 Masterpieces of Music before 1750, vol. 2 - An Anthology of Musical Examples from Gregorian Chant to J.S. Bach
[10a], [12] Erato LDE 1009 Musique sacrée française
[10a], [12] Haydn Society HSL 9007 Vocal Polyphony from the 15th to the 17th Century
[15]-[17] Haydn Society recording HSL 2074 Masterpieces of Music before 1750, vol. 3 - An Anthology of Musical Examples from Gregorian Chant to J.S. Bach

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Comments:
Information from owned LPs (Erato); these 2 individualy packaged LPs appear to have been sold only as a pair.

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Pierre-F. Roberge