The History of Music in Sound, Vol. III

The History of Music in Sound, Vol. III: Ars Nova and the Renaissance
Various performers
His Master's Voice HMS 20-31 [78rpm x12, 30cm]
His Master's Voice HLP 5/6/7 [LPx3, mono, 25cm, Europe]
RCA Victor LM 6016 [LPx2, mono, NA]
RCA Victor LSC 6016 [LPx2, stereo, NA]

Contents:

    French Polyphony: 13th and 14th Centuries

    Adam de la Halle:
  1. Tant con je vivrai

    2. Jehanot de l'Escurel
  2. A vous douce debonnaire

    3. Anon., 14th c.:
  3. Le moulin de Paris
  4. Se je chant' mains

    5. Guillaume de Machaut & Italian Polyphony: 14th Century

    Guillaume de Machaut:
  5. Ma fin est mon commencement

    6. Guillaume de Machaut: Messe de Nostre Dame
  6. Benedictus

    7. Giovanni da Cascia:
  7. Nel mezzo a sei paon

    8. Italian Polyphony: 14th Century & English Part-songs: 1360-1425

    Francesco Landini:
  8. Amar si li alti tuo gentil costumi

    9. Maestro Piero:
  9. Calvacando

    10. Anon., England:
  10. Angelus ad virginem

    11. English Part-songs:1360-1425 & English Church Music: Early 15th Century

    Anon., England:
  11. Deo gratias Anglia
  12. Now wel may we merthis make
  13. Tappster, drinker

    14. English Church Music: Early 15th Century

    Anon.
  14. Credo

    15. Byttering
  15. Nesciens mater

    16. John Dunstable (d. 1453)

    John Dunstable:
  16. Veni Sancte Spiritus

    17. Chansons of the 15th Century & Guillaume Dufay (d. 1474)

    Johannes Ciconia / Giustiani:
  17. O rosa bella

    18. John Dunstable (now attr. to John Bedyngham) / Giustiani:
  18. O rosa bella

    19. Guillaume Dufay:
  19. Ave, regina coelorum

    20. Burgundian Chansons: 15th Century & Johannes Ockeghem

    Gilles Binchois:
  20. Filles à marier

    21. Guillaume Dufay:
  21. Pour l'amour de ma doullce amye

    22. Johannes Ockeghem: Missa "Fors seulement"
  22. Kyrie

    23. Netherland Church Music: c. 1500

    Jacob Obrecht:
  23. Si oblitus fuero

    24. Pierre de la Rue: Requiem mass
  24. Introït

    25. Josquin Des Prez (d. 1521)

    Josquin Desprez:
  25. El Grillo
  26. Je ne puis tenir d'aimer

    27. Josquin Desprez: Missa "L'Homme armé (super voces musicales)"
  27. Sanctus

    28. Josquin Desprez:
  28. Tribulatio et angustia

    29. English Church Music: 1475-1500 & Robert Fayrfax (d. 1521)

    Richard Davy: Passion Music
  29. Timuerunt valde, dicentes: Vere Filius Dei

    30. Anon.: Missa Custodi Nos
  30. Gloria

    31. Robert Fayrfax: Magnificat: Regali
  31. Verse II and Gloria

    32. John Taverner (d. 1545) & Organ Music Early 15th Century

    John Taverner: Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas
  32. Benedictus

    33. Conrad Paumann
  33. Mit ganczem Willen

    34. Buchner:
  34. Es gieng ein Mann

    35. Redford
  35. O Lux, on the faburden

    36. Instrumental Ensemble: 15th-16th Centuries

    Heinrich Isaac
  36. Chanson
  37. La la hö hö
  38. Innsbruck, ich muss dich lassen

    39. De la Torre
  39. Alta

    40. Loyset Compère:
  40. Nous sommes de l'ordre de Saint-Babouin

    41. Rubinus
  41. Der Bauern schwanz

Playing time: ??' ??"

Performers:
[1]-[4], [7]-[9], [16], [20]-[21], [25]-[26] Ensemble Pro Musica Antiqua de Bruxelles - Safford Cape, dir.
[5] Lemuel Hughes and Clarence Robert with instrumental ensemble
[6] Brompton Oratory Choir - Henry Washington, dir. & Harry Danks (viol), Desmond Dupré (viol), Edward Selwin (cor anglais), John Alexandra (bassoon)
[10]-[11] Brompton Oratory Choir - Henry Washington, dir.
[12]-[13] Schola Polyphonica - Henry Washington, dir. with Carl Dolmetsch (viol), Nathalie Dolmetsch (viol), Joy Boughton (oboe)
[14]-[15], [29]-[30] Bodley Singers - Bernard Rose, dir.
[17]-[18] Alfred Deller (counter-tenor) with August Wenzinger (viol), Mariane Majer (viol), Gertrud Flügel (viol)
[22] Renaissance Singers - Michael Howard, dir. with Bernard Wolton (clarinet), Ernest Dalwood (clarinet), John Ashby (trombone), Arthur Wilson (trombone), Frederick Mansfield (trombone)
[19], [23]-[24], [27]-[28], [32] Schola Polyphonica - Henry Washington, dir.
[31] Renaissance Singers - Michael Howard, dir.
[33]-[35] Susi Jeans (organ)
[36]-[38] Viols of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
[39] Donald Bridger (cor anglais), Ronald Waller (bassoon), John Ashby (trombone)
[40] Carl Dolmetsch ensemble (recorder quartet)
[41] Carl Dolmetsch (recorder), Donald Bridger (oboe), Ronald Waller (bassoon), John Ashby (trombone)

Recording site and date:
Unknowm [1953 or prior]

Excerpts:
[1]-[4] HMV-Gramophone HMS 20 [78 r.p.m.] French Polyphony: 13th and 14th Centuries
[5]-[7] HMV-Gramophone HMS 21 [78 r.p.m.] Guillaume de Machaut & Italian Polyphony: 14th Century
[8]-[11] HMV-Gramophone HMS 22 [78 r.p.m.] Italian Polyphony: 14th Century & English Part-songs: 1360-1425
[12]-[15] HMV-Gramophone HMS 23 [78 r.p.m.] English Part-songs: 1360-1425 & English Church Music: Early 15th Century
[16] HMV-Gramophone HMS 24 [78 r.p.m.] John Dunstable (d. 1453)
[17]-[19] HMV-Gramophone HMS 25 [78 r.p.m.] Chansons of the 15th Century & Guillaume Dufay (d. 1474)
[20]-[22] HMV-Gramophone HMS 26 [78 r.p.m.] Burgundian Chansons: 15th Century & Johannes Ockeghem
[23]-[24] HMV-Gramophone HMS 27 [78 r.p.m.] Netherland Church Music: c. 1500
[25]-[28] HMV-Gramophone HMS 28 [78 r.p.m.] Josquin Des Prez (d. 1521)
[29]-[31] HMV-Gramophone HMS 29 [78 r.p.m.] English Church Music: 1475-1500 & Robert Fayrfax (d. 1521)
[32]-[35] HMV-Gramophone HMS 30 [78 r.p.m.] John Taverner (d. 1545) & Organ Music Early 15th Century
[36]-[41] HMV-Gramophone HMS 31 [78 r.p.m.] Instrumental Ensemble 15th-16th Centuries

Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.): 35-415 (december 1957, as HLP-5)

Comments:
Information from the booklet provided with the owned LP compilation (RCA).
The RCA LSC number is presumably the stereo version (from backcover of the booklet) although I am not certain if it was released as such.

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Pierre-F. Roberge