Medieval English Polyphony - A discography

This page will eventually index major sources of medieval English polyphony from the early Ars Antiqua style as related to Notre Dame and on to the generation of Dunstaple.

This is a very preliminary and very cursory discography. It will likely not be completed in any systematic way for months or years. It does not include even all those items for which we have detailed contents. It does, however, include a variety of older & obscure material which is gathered here in preparation for a future extensive listing.

In the meantime, a CD search on this topic is likely to be more helpful than finding something in this file.

Material below has been collected to this state primarily by Pierre-F. Roberge.

• Columbia (U.S.A.) 5715 [78 r.p.m.]
  Dowland - Anonymous (13th c.)
  Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, vol. I, rec. 6
  Dolmetsch family & unknown artists

• Victor 13556 [78 r.p.m.]
  Mediæval and Renaissance Choral Music, rec. 2
  Anonymous - Dunstable
  Choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music - Stevens, dir.

• Victor 13558/9 [2x78 r.p.m.]
  Mediæval and Renaissance Choral Music, rec. 4/5
  Obrecht - Anonymous (XIIIth Century)
  Chorus of Pius X School of Liturgical Music - Stevens, dir.

• Columbia (G.-B.) DX 582 [78 r.p.m.]
  Early English Church Music, rec. 2
  Anonymous - Henry VI
  Nashdom Abbey Singers - Hughes, dir.

• Columbia (G.-B.) DX 581 [78 r.p.m.]
  Early English Church Music, rec. 1
  Damett - Henry VI
  Nashdom Abbey Singers - Hughes, dir.

• Columbia (G.-B.) RO 50 [78 r.p.m.]
  Early English Church Music
  Anonymous (XIIth & XIVth Centuries)
  Nashdom Abbey Singers - Hughes, dir.

• Édition de Musique Sacrée SEMS-1120 [78 r.p.m.]
  Dunstable - Anonymous (XIIIth c.) - Vecchi
  Schola Cantorum pontificale

• Bost 104 [78 r.p.m.]
  The Evolution of Piano Music, # 1
  Anonymous - Paumann - Bendusi - Trabaci - Amerbach
  S. Marlowe

• Argo ZRG 443 [LP, mono]
  Medieval English Lyrics
  Various interprets - Frank Ll. Harrison & Eric J. Dobson, dirs.

• Dover HCR-5263 [LP]
  Two Mediaeval Masses
  The Ambrosian Singers - Denis Stevens, cond.

• Legend LGD 024/5 [LP-Stereo]
  Medieval and Renaissance Music
  Musica Antiqua - Michael Uridge, dir.

• Legacy CD 397
  A Cheerful Noise - Medieval and Renaissance Music
  Musica Antiqua - Michael Uridge, dir.

• Nonesuch H-71 308 [LP, stereo]
  The Worcester Fragments
  Academia Monteverdiana - Denis Stevens, dir.

• HMV-Gramophone HMS 18 [78 r.p.m.]
  English Polyphony
  C. Dolmetsch, N. Dolmetsch, D, Bridger, A. Taylor; Brompton Oratory Choir - Henry Washington, dir.; Bodley Singers - Bernard Rose, dir.

• HMV-Gramophone HMS 23 [78 r.p.m.]
  English Part-songs: 1360-1425 & English Church Music: Early 15th Century
  Schola Polyphonica - Henry Washington, dir.; Bodley Singers - Bernard Rose, dir.

• HMV-Gramophone HMS 23 [78 r.p.m.]
  English Church Music: 1475-1500 & Robert Fayrfax (d. 1521)
  Bodley Singers - Bernard Rose, dir.; Renaissance Singers - Howard, dir.

• HMV-Gramophone HMS 30 [78 r.p.m.]
  John Taverner (d. 1545) & Organ Music Early 15th Century
  Schola Polyphonica - Henry Washington, dir.; S, Jeans

• L'Oiseau-Lyre OL 50075 [LP, mono]
  Masters of Early English Keyboard Music, Vol. 1
  Four Centuries of Music for Organ, Harpsichord and Clavichord
  Thurston Dart

• Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord 290859.61 (3 CDs)
  L'Europe musicale au Moyen Age
  France / Angleterre / Espagne

• Abbey S 603 [LP]
  Christmas Music
  The Clerkes of Oxenford

• Baroque 9006 [LP]
  Medieval Carols and Dances
  Renaissance Chamber Players - Paul Ehrlich, dir.

• EMI CSD 3504 [LP]
  The Treasury of English Church Music, vol, I
  The Ambrosian Singers - Denis Stevens, cond.

• Desto DC 7184 [LP]
  Medieval and Renaissance Sounds, vol. II
  The greatest "hits" of the renaissance
  Musica Antiqua - Michael Uridge, dir.

• Desto DC 7201 [LP]
  Medieval and Renaissance Sounds, vol. VI
  Dances, songs, festivities; A "musical time machine"
  Alison Pearce & Musica Antiqua - Michael Uridge, dir.

• HMV-Gramophone HMS 17 [78 r.p.m.]
  Early Polyphony II
  Bodley Singers - Bernard Rose, dir.
  C. Dolmetsch, N. Dolmetsch, D, Bridger, A. Taylor

• Bescol CD 532
  Medieval and Renaissance Songs and Dances
  Musica Antiqua - Michael Uridge, dir.

• Oryx EXP 79 [LP]
  Renaissance sounds
  Exploring the world of music - Songs, dances and instrumental music
  Musica Antiqua - Michael Uridge, dir.

• Harvest ???? [LP]
  Amaranth
  Shirley Collins, Dolly Collins & al.

• Nonesuch H-71 292 [LP, stereo]
  Music in honor of St. Thomas of Canterbury
  Accademia Monteverdiana & Trinity Boys' Choir - Denis Stevens, dir.

• EMI (Ireland) IEMC 6005 [LP, stereo]
  The Consort of St. Sepulchre
  Medieval and Renaissance Music
  The Consort of St. Sepulchre

• Musical Heritage Society MHS 4696M
  The Passion according to St. Luke
  Anonymous, 15th-century England
  Pro Cantione Antiqua - Bruno Turner, cond.

• Signum 070
  All the Ends of the Earth
  Contemporary & Medieval Vocal Music
  The Choir of Gonville & Caius College, Cambridge - Geoffrey Webber

• Coviello Classics COV 21012
  Nova! Nova!
  Christmas Carols from Europe (14th-18th Century)
  The Playfords

• Hallistic Music HMCD-001 [CD][LP]
  A Feast of Songs
  Holiday Music from the Middle Ages
  Barry & Beth Hall

• Texas Early Music Project 2001 V. 3 [CD]
  Mirie It Is!
  Early Middle English Songs
  Texas Early Music Project Medieval Consort - Daniel Johnson

• Plant Life Records PLR 043 [LP]
  Miri it is
  English Medieval Music from the 13th & 14th Centuries
  Noyse of Musitians - Philip Astle & Paul Williamson

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