Medieval Roots

Medieval Roots
New York Pro Musica - Noah Greenberg & John Reeves White, dir.
Decca Gold Label Series DL 7 9438 [LP]
Decca Gold Label Series DL 6 9438 [8-tracks cartridge]
Decca Gold Label Series DL C 73 9438 [Cass.]
MCA 2519 [LP]

Contents:

    Guillaume de Machaut:
  1. Virelai: Douce dame jolie
  2. Ballade: De petit po

  3. Anon.:
  4. Villancico: Riu, riu

  5. Alfonso el Sabio (attr.): Cantigas de Santa Maria
  6. Cantiga 77: Da que Deus mamou o leite do seu peito
    Cantiga 1: De oge mais quer' eu trobar
  7. Cantiga 166: Como poden per sas culpas os omes seer contreitos

  8. Anon., 13th c.:
  9. Motet: Quant je partie de m'amie

  10. Anon.:
  11. Saltarello I
    Saltarello II

  12. ----
    Anon.:
  13. Fanfare
    Ductia
  14. Estampie
  15. Hayl Mary, full of grace

  16. Jean Ghiselin:
  17. La Alfonsina
    Antoine Bruhier:
    Latura tu

  18. Heinrich Isaac:
  19. In meinem sinn

  20. Rossinus Mantuanus:
  21. Frottola: Lirum bililirum

  22. Anon.:
  23. Dance: La Bounette
    La doun cella
    La Chymyse

Playing time: ??' ??"

Performers:
New York Pro Musica:
Sheila Schonbrun (soprano), Elizabeth Humes (soprano), Anthony Tamburello (bass), Brayton Lewis, Gordon Myers, various instrumentists
Noah Greenberg & John Reeves White, dir.

Recording site and date:
See links below;
Rel.: 11/1971 (Decca)

Other releases (excerpts):
[1]-[2], [6] Decca DL 9431 / 7 9431 Ah Sweet Lady The Romance of Medieval France (Chansons, Ballades and Virelais)
[3], [9] Decca DL 9400 Music of the Medieval Court and Countryside (for the Christmas season)
[4]-[5] Decca DL 9416 / 7 9416 Spanish Medieval Music (Twelve Cantigas de Santa Maria - Liturgy of Santiago de Compostela - Mass in Honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary)
[7], [10] Decca DL 9418 / 7 9418 Medieval English Carols and Italian Dances
[8] ..??
[11], [13] Decca DL 9435 / 7 9435 Petrucci First Printer of Music Chansons, frottoles, Popular Italian Dances & Sacred Composition from the first printed Collections
[12] Decca DL 9413 / 7 9413 Heinrich Isaac - Jacob Obrecht
[14] Decca DL 9434 / 7 9434 [LP] The Kynge's Musicke

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Comments:
Information from owned LP; for date of release: Thomas Coleman & Schwann1 Guide.

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Pierre-F. Roberge