Music of Medieval France

Music of Medieval France 1200-1400 Sacred and Secular
The Deller Consort & Renaissance Chamber Ensemble - Alfred Deller, dir.;
The Deller Consort - Alfred Deller, dir. & Concentus Musicus, Wien - Nikolaus Harnoncourt, dir.
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BG 656 [LP, mono]
Vanguard "The Bach Guild" BGS 70 656 [LP, stereo]
Vanguard (Arcade) Classics "Alfred Deller Edition" 08 5058 71 [CD, Europe]

Contents:

    Sacred Music

    Anon. (Now attr. to Philippe Le Chancelier)
  1. Conductus: Dic Christi veritas

    2. Perotinus Magnus
  2. Alleluja Nativitas

    3. Anon.
  3. Conductus: Pater noster commiserans

    4. Anon., Notre Dame School:
  4. Alleluja Christus resurgens

    5. ----

    Secular Music

    Anon., c. 1280
  5. Hoquetus: In seculum
  6. Amor potest conqueri

    7. Anon., c. 1300
  7. In seculum d'Amiens longum

    8. Anon., 13th c.
  8. El mois de mai

    9. Anon., 14th c.
  9. La Manfredina

    10. Vaillant:
  10. Par maintes foys

    11. Solage:
  11. Pluseurs gens voy

    12. Matheus de Perusio
  12. Ne me chant

    13. Guillaume de Machaut
  13. S'il estoit
  14. Comment qu'a moy

    15. Matheus de Perusio
  15. Andray soulet
  16. Or sus vous dormez trop

    17. Solage
  17. Helas je voy

    18. Grimace
  18. Alarme, Alarme

Playing time: 44' 16" (app.)

Performers:
[1], [3] The Deller Consort
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Gerald English (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Renaissance Chamber Ensemble (aka: Mitglieder des Collegium Aureum)
Helmut Hucke (soprano bombardon), Albrecht Renz (cornett), Hans-Martin Linde (recorder), Johannes Koch (regal)
Alfred Deller, dir.
[2], [4] The Deller Consort
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Wilfred Brown (tenor), Gerald English (tenor), Maurice Bevan (baritone)
Renaissance Chamber Ensemble (aka: Mitglieder des Collegium Aureum)
Helmut Hucke (soprano bombardon), Albrecht Renz (cornett), Ilse Brix-Meinert (fiddle), Johannes Koch (recorder), Rudolf Ewerhart (regal)
Alfred Deller, dir.
[5]-[18] The Deller Consort
Alfred Deller (counter-tenor), Mary Thomas (soprano), Robert Tear (tenor)
Concentus Musicus, Wien
Alice Harnoncourt (pardessus de viole), Hermann Hobart (Bassfiedel), Jürg Schaeftlein (recorder), Kurt Theiner (portable organ), Hans Pöttler (trombone), Leopold Stasny (recorder, percussion: tambourine, triangle, drum), Ernst Knava (percussion: tambourine, triangle, drum)
Nikolaus Harnoncourt, dir.

Recording site and date:
[1], [3] Stiftskirche, Fröndenberg, Germany [1961]
[2], [4] Stiftskirche, Fröndenberg, Germany [1961]
[5]-[18] [1964 or prior] Rel.: 1964

Excerpts:
[1], [3] Harmonia mundi (Fono-Verlagsgesellschaft) HM 25 147 [LP, 25cm] Musik an Notre Dame in Paris (um 1200) (II): Perotinus Magnus
[2], [4] Harmonia mundi (Fono-Verlagsgesellschaft) HM 25 143 [LP, 25cm] Musik an Notre Dame in Paris (um 1200): Perotinus Magnus
[14], [16], [18] Vanguard "Everyman classics" SRV 298 SD [LP] Songs of Birds, Battle and Love, and the Flowering of the French Chanson

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Pierre-F. Roberge