Playing time: 25' 48" + 21' 54" = 47' 42"
Performers:
[1]-[11] Pro Musica Antiqua [Elisabeth Verlooy (soprano), Christians
van Acker (alto), René Letroye (tenor), Franz Mertens (tenor),
Silva Devos (recorder), Janine Rubinlicht (treble fiddle), Gaston
Dôme (tenor fiddle), André Douvere (tenor fiddle),
Michel Podolski (lute)] - Safford Cape, dir.
[13]-[14] Pro Musica Antiqua [René Letroye (tenor), Franz
Mertens (tenor), Frederich Anspach (tenor), Willy Pourtois (bass),
Maurice de Groote (bass)] - Safford Cape, dir.
Recording site and date:
Palais du comte d'Egmont, Brussels, Belgium [7/1956]
Excerpts:
[2], [5], [7], [13] Deutsche Grammophon 136
306 IMS [LP] Musikkunde in Beispielen Musik des Mittelalters
und der Renaissance.
[13] Archiv Produktion 37140EPA [45
r.p.m.] Judaea et Jerusalem
[13]-[14] Archiv Codex Series 453 162
[CD] Guillaume de Machaut - Messe de Nostre Dame & Guillaume
Du Fay - 5 sacred songs
Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Comments:
Information from owned LP
The french leaflet enclosed in my copy has number 14 564.
This is a typical Cape's recording: restraint and emotion. Possibly
one of his greatest achievement at least for Pérotin and
Léonin. The first side needs an urgent re-edition.
To FAQ references to this recording.
To FAQ CD index page.
Pierre-F. Roberge