Performers: Nancy Armstrong (soliste), Sallie Gordon, Margaret Johnson, Susan Klebanow, Jane Shaw (sopranos); Ken Fitch (soliste), Steve Walton (haute-contres); Bruce Fithian (soliste), John Clarke (ténors); Charles Robert Stephens (soliste), David Rockefeller (basses); John Tyson (flûtes à bec, cromornes), Kathleen Devore (flûte traversière, flûtes à bec), Jean Hémard (flûtes à bec, cromornes), Alison Fowle (taille de viole), Laura Jeppensen (basse de viole), Joel Cohen (chant et luth)
Playing time: 49'17
Recording date: 1979; rel.: 1980 (LP), 1991 (CD & Cassette)
Excerpts:
[15] Harmonia mundi HMX 290 8016.20
Musique de la Renaissance Music - L'Europe Musicale au XVe et XVIe
siècles
An excellent selection of the chansons which gained great fame for Pierre Certon (d.1572), composer for the Royal Chapel in Paris, accompanied by a mass setting. The monophonic tune which serves as the basis for the mass is not the same as the one commonly known today.
Another recording devoted to Certon:
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