This will eventually become an index of the Notre Dame style polyphony, by such composers as Leonin (with Perotin on his own page), along with some related repertory. Some plainchant associated with this repertory is presently included when it cannot be more easily grouped elsewhere.
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.
Todd M. McCombColumbia (U.S.A.) 5710 [78 r.p.m.]
Examples of Plainsong
Columbia History of Music by Ear and Eye, vol. I, rec. 1
(artists not stated)
Lumen 32017 [78 r.p.m., original release]
Seven Centuries of Sacred Music, Vol. 2, rec. 1
Anonymous (XIIIth century) - Léonin
Yves Tinayre
Lumen 32013 [78 r.p.m., original release]
Seven Centuries of Sacred Music, Vol. 1, rec. 3
Anonymous (XIIIth Century) - Gombert
Yves Tinayre
Lumen 32011 [78 r.p.m., original release]
Seven Centuries of Sacred Music, Vol. 1, rec. 1
Léonin - Pérotin
Yves Tinayre
La Voix de son Maître DB 5 119 [78 r.p.m.]
Les maîtres français du Moyen-Âge, rec. 4
Pérotin - Anonymous (XIIIth Century)
La Psallette de Notre-Dame - Jacques Chailley, dir.
Victor 13555 [78 r.p.m.]
Mediæval and Renaissance Choral Music, rec. 1
Anonymous - Chartes - Léonin
Choir of the Pius X School of Liturgical Music - Mother Stevens, dir.
L'Oiseau-Lyre 90 [78 r.p.m.]
Pérotin - Anonymous
Chorale Yvonne Gouverné
Columbia (U.S.A.) 70700D [78 r.p.m.]
Sacred & Secular Music of XII-XVIIth Centuries, Vol. 1,
rec. 1
Léonin - Halle - Anonymous (XIIIth c.)
Yves Tinayre and Dvonch Ensemble
Parlophone R 1017 [78 r.p.m., 25 cm, Great-Britain]
Parlophone Two Thousand Years of Music Album, rec. 2
Berlin State Academy Choir - Halbig, dir.
HMV-Gramophone HMS 10 [78 r.p.m.]
Early Polyphony I
Brompton Oratory Choir - Henry Washington, dir.; Bodley Singers - Lemuel Hughes, dir.
HMV-Gramophone HMS 17 [78 r.p.m.]
Early Polyphony II
Bodley Singers - Lemuel Hughes, dir.; C. Dolmetsch, N. Dolmetsch, D, Bridger, A. Taylor
HMV-Gramophone HMS 19 [78 r.p.m.]
French & English Polyphony
Bodley Singers - Bernard Rose, dir.; Brompton Oratory Choir - Henry Washington, dir.
Oxford University Press OUP 161 [LP]
Medieval Music
The Oxford Anthology of Music - Sacred Monophony, The Play of Herod
Pro Cantione Antiqua - Edgar Fleet, dir.
Oxford University Press OUP 164 [LP]
Medieval Music
The Oxford Anthology of Music - Ars Antiqua Polyphony
Pro Cantione Antiqua - Edgar Fleet, dir.
Concert Hall Society CHS 1 112 [LP-mono]
Perotinus
The Dessoff Choirs & New York Brass Ensemble - Paul Boepple, dir.
Orpheus (MHS) OR 351 [LP-USA]
History of European Music - Part I: Music of the Early Middle
Ages, vol. 3
Schola Cantorum Londiniensis - Denis Stevens, musical dir.
Pleiades P 249 [LP, stereo]
Historical Anthology of Music
Thirteenth-Century Polyphony (Early Medieval Music)
The University of Chicago Collegium Musicum - Howard M. Brown, dir.; The University of Kentucky Collegium Musicum - Wesley K. Morgan, dir.; St. Meinrad Archabbey Schola Cantorum - Rev. Columba Kelly, O.S.B., dir.
Studio SM D 2664
Voix romanes - Romanesque Voices
Various Ensembles
L'Oiseau-Lyre SXOL 20 501 [LP, stereo]
Notre-Dame de Paris au XIIIe siècle
Artists unknown
Columbia ML 6255 [LP, mono]
Historic Organs of Europe: Switzerland
E. Power Biggs
Valois MB 444 [LP, mono]
Ludus Paschalis, Jeu liturgique de Pâques
Ensemble Polyphonique de la Radio-Télévision française - Charles Ravier, dir.
Electrola (EMI) SME 91 761/2 [LPx2, stereo] or
Lebendige Musik des Mittelalters und der Renaissance - Cinq
siècles de joyeuse musique
Syntagma Musicum of Amsterdam - Kees Otten, dir.
Fontana Special SF1 14 133 [LP]
Notre Dame de Paris in the 13th Century
Vocal and Instrumental Ensemble - Thurston Dart, dir.
Bibletone CL 221 [LP, mono]
Music of the Church
N.Y. Blessed Sacrament Quartett & C. Sparks
Passacaille 932
Music for Candlemas
Gregorian Chant and Early 13th Century Polyphony
The Notre Dame School
Trigon; Margot Klose; Jos Somsen; Penny Turner
HMV-Gramophone HMS 16 [78 r.p.m.]
Early Polyphony I
Brompton Oratory Choir - Henry Washington, dir.
Bodley Singers - Bernard Rose, dir.
Fondation Armand Panigel 159 [Cass.]
Yves Tinayre
Airs de musique sacrée: du 13e au 18e siècle
Yves Tinayre et al.
Ducretet-Thomson 470 C 069 [45 r.p.m.]
Musiques pour le Sacre des Rois de France
Ensemble Vocal et Instrumental Roger Blanchard
L'Anthologie sonore AS 99 [78 r.p.m.]
Musique au temps de Saint Louis et Musique Instrumentale du
XIIIe siècle
Vocal & Instrumental Ensemble - Guillaume de Van, dir.
Telefunken AWT 8018 (45 rpm, EP)
Frühe mehrstimmige Gesänge und Tanzweisen
von Perotin (um 1200) bis zur Ars Nova
Ensemble Vocal et Instrumental Roger Blanchard
Studio SM 30.757 [LP]
L'Arche: Alleluia - Psallite
Monastères 21
Chanterelle, Lanza del Vasto et la Communauté
Studio SM D2911
A Cappella
Le chant des dames
Various ensembles
Canterino 1023
Silhouetten Vol. 3: Elegien des 12. Bis 14. Jahrhunderts
Paul Gerhardt Adam
Alpha 901
Pastime with Good Company
1998-2003
Various artists
Hortus 041
Mater Dulcissima
Cathédral Notre-Dame de Paris
Maïtrise Notre-Dame de Paris / Ensemble Gregorien - Sylvain Dieudonne
Gotham Recording « The French Broadcasting System in North America » GRC 8012 / 8013 [LPx2, auto. coupling]
Masterworks from France - Program no. 625 & no. 626
Ars Antiqua – Fran&ccedi;ois-Adrien Boieldieu: Jean de Paris
Various performers.
Vox in Rama (no number) [CD]
Flores aquitanes
Sur les traces de Saint-Jacques et de Saint-Martial: chant grégorien, tropes et poésies liturgiques en Aquitaine au XIIe siècle
Ensemble Vox in Rama – Frédéric Rantières, dir.
La mà de guido LMG 2097 [CD]
La viola d'arc a la Corona d'Arago
Cantar alla viola
Tacet 201
Crossing the Channel
Music from medieval France and England, 10th-13th century
Ensemble Providencia
Vox in Rama Vox002-01 [CD]
Modulatio divinae laudis
Le chant de l'émotion divine
Ensemble Vox in Rama - Frédéric Rantières, dir.
Ensamble Terra Australis (no number) [DVD]
De Amor y de Fuego
Santísimo Sacramento en la Música de la Espasa Virreynal
Ensamble Terra Australis
In Mulieribus (no number) [CD]
Notre-Dame de Grâce
In Mulieribus - Anna Song
In Mulieribus (no number) [CD]
A December Feast
Carols and motets for Christmas and other feasts in December
In Mulieribus
BBC Transcription Service 103838/103839 [LP]
Festival Music of the Middle Ages - 3/4
Introduced by Denis Stevens