Playing time: 40' 22"
Performers:
New York Pro Musica
Cast: Russell Oberlin, Brayton Lewis, Jerold Sien, Alan Baker,
Betty Wilson, Charles Bressler, Gordon Myers, Alva Tripp, William
Bohm & boy choristers of Church of the Transfiguration, New
York (Richard Zahnd, David Kouri, Edmund Cortez, George Ryan, Ronald
Frers, Ronald McLaren, Richard Bell
Stuart Gardner, (choirmaster); Musicians: Robert Montesi (straight
trumpet), Paul Ehrlich (rebec), Paul Maynard (portative organ,
psaltery), Martha Blackman (Bell carillon, Minstrel's Harp), George
Gaber (percussion), Bernard Krainis (recorders), Inez Lynch (vielle),
Jean Hakes (Minstrel's Harp), James Petrie (Bagpipes).
Recording site and date:
The Cloisters, New York, NY, USA [01-02/1958];
Rel.: August 1958
Compilation:
MCAD2-10102 [CD] The Play of Daniel,
The Play of Herod
Excerpts:
[8] Horizon DL 34 541 [LP] Music for a
Medieval Day - Music of the cloister, cathedral, court, marketplace,
and countryside
Comments:
Information from owned recordings (Decca LP & MCA CD), BN-Opale
and James Gollin (from his book "Pied Piper, the many lives
of Noah Greenberg", Pendragon, 2001).
Although the first recording of this medieval play, it is one of
the most delightful I have ever heard, full of life.
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Pierre-F. Roberge