Les primitifs français de Philippe-Auguste à Philippe-le-Bel

Les primitifs français de Philippe-Auguste à Philippe-le-Bel
Ensemble Vocal et Instrumental Roger Blanchard
Ducretet Thomson 320 C 107 (LP)

Contents:

    Pérotin-le-Grand (trancr. Y. Rokseth)
  1. Quadruplum: Alleluia Viderunt

    2. Gautier de Chatillon (transcr. Gennrich)
  2. Conductus (a 2): Ver pacis aperit

    3. Anonymous (transcr. L. Shrade)
  3. Conductus (a 1): Beata nobis gaudia

    4. Attributed to Pérotin (trancr. Y. Rokseth)
  4. Conductus (a 2): Gaude felix Francia

    5. Anonymous, Ms Montpellellier f 303
  5. Conductus (a 3): Deus in adjutorium

    6. Anonymous (transcr. Bukofzer)
  6. Chorus (a 3): Benedicamus domino

    7. Anonymous, Ms Montpellellier f 339
  7. Chorus (a 3): Alle psallite cum luya

    8. Anonymous (transcr. Y. Rokseth)
  8. Chorus (a 3): Alleluia psallat

    9. Anonymous, Ms Montpellellier f 2
  9. Hoquet

    10. Anonymous, Ms Montpellellier f 34
  10. Motet (a 3): Joliement en douce désirée / Quand voi la florette / Je suis joliette

    11. Anonymous, Ms Montpellellier f 5
  11. Hoquet

    12. ----
    Anonymous, Ms Montpellellier f 189
  12. a) Motet: A la clarté qui tout enlumina
    Anonymous, Ms Montpellellier f 187
    b) Motet: Face de moi son plaisir
    Anonymous, Ms Montpellellier f 200
    c) Motet: Quant je parti de ma mie
    Anonymous, Ms Montpellellier f 246
    d) Motet: Hier main toz seus chevauchoie

    13. Anonymous, Ms Montpellellier f 283
  13. Motet (a 3): Amor vincens

    14. Anonymous, Ms Montpellellier f 311
  14. Motet: Se je chante / Bien doi amer

    15. Adam de la Halle (transcr. Genrich)
  15. Rondeau: Fines amourettes

    16. Pierre de la Croix, Ms Montpellellier f 253
  16. Motet: S'amours eüst point de poer / Au renouveler du joli tans

    17. Roman de Fauvel

    Anonymous, Roman de Fauvel, France, Bibliothèque Nationale f fr. Ms 146
  17. a) Motet: Favellandi vicium
    b) Motet (a 3): Se cuers joians / Rex beatus
    c) Motet (a 3): Servant regem misericordia et unitas / O Philippe prelustris Francorum rex
    d) Isorythmic motet (a 3): Nulla pestis est gravior / Plange nostra regio

Performers: Soloists: Jean Archimbaud (soprano); Bernard Gallet, Yves Tessier, Marcel Giteau (tenors); Eugène Bousquet (baritone); Michel Richez, Alexandre Jottras (basses); André François (English horn); André Chandor (bassoon); Gérard Pichaureau, Maximilien Bouffier, Bernard Callot (trombones); Marie-Louise Girod (organ)

Recording date: 1958 or earlier

Excerpts:
[2]-[4], [17b-c] Ducretet Thomson 470 C 069 [45 r.p.m.] Musiques pour le Sacre des Rois de France
[1]-[2], [4], [7], [10]-[11] Telefunken AWT 8018 [45 rpm, EP] Frühe mehrstimmige Gesänge und Tanzweisen von Perotin (um 1200) bis zur Ars Nova

Comments: An important early recording of thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century French polyphony. Note that the first track is not an Alleluia but a gradual. Also, one of the two-voice motets seems to be mistranscribed and should read "Quant je parti de m'amie."
Transcription for Ms Montpellier by Yvonne Rokseth. This LP won the "Grand Prix du Disque 1958" of the Académie du Disque Français. Minor additional information for the content from Pierre-F. Roberge (owned LP)

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William MacLehose