Italian Ars Nova - A discography

This will eventually be an index of the works of the Italian Ars Nova, including those of the important Florentine school around Francesco Landini (who will be indexed separately), as well as Johannes Ciconia and related laud repertory.

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.

• Édition de Musique Sacrée SEMS-1119 [78 r.p.m.]
  Anonymous (XVth c.) - Palestrina
  Schola Cantorum pontificale

• Voce del Padrone HN 1870 [78 r.p.m.]
  Anonymous - Ciconia
  S. Danco

• Mirror Music Mi 00002 [LP]
  Das Fest der Pierbaldo (nach dem sonetenkranz "Mundus Pacidus" des Simon d'Orvieto) - The Feast of Pierbaldo
  Les Menestrels, Wien

• L'Oiseau-Lyre OL-102 [78 r.p.m.]
  Monuments of the Ars Nova (XIVth Century), rec. 4
  Paolo di Firenze - Magister Franciscus
  J. Archimbaud, R. Bonté, J.L. Daniels

• L'Oiseau-Lyre OL-1 [78 r.p.m.]
  Monuments of the Ars Nova (XIVth Century), rec. 1
  Matteo de Perugia - Jacopo da Bologna
  J. Archimbaud, R. Bonté

• Allegro ALG 3029
  Italian Madrigal - Ars Nova & XVIth Century
  Vassar Madrigal Singers - Geer, dir.

• Decca LXT 2945 [LP, mono]
  Choral Music of the XIIIth to the XVIth Centuries
  Quartetto Polifonico

• Carish MCA 28018 [LP, 17cm (?)]
  Antologia sonora della musica italiana / Anthologie de la musique italienne, vol. 2
  Canti religiosi nel basso Medi Evo e nel Rinascimento / Chants religieux du moyen-âge et de la renaissance
  Polifonica ambrosiana - Giuseppe Biella, dir.

• Carish MCA 28017 [LP, 17cm (?)]
  Antologia sonora della musica italiana / Anthologie de la musique italienne, vol. 3
  Canti religiosi nel basso Medi Evo e nel Rinascimento / Chants profane du moyen-âge
  Lucca, Nobile & others

• EMI "Reflexe" 1C 063-30 111 [LP-Stereo]
  Musik des Trecentol um Jacopo da Bologna
  Ricercare-Ensemble für Alte Musik, Zürich - Michel Piguet, dir.

• EMI "Reflexe" 1C 063-30 113 [LP-Stereo]
  Francesco Landini
  Studio der frühen Musik - Thomas Binkley, dir.

• Tudor 0501 [LP]
  Das Fest der Pierbaldo (nach dem sonetenkranz "Mundus Pacidus" des Simon d'Orvieto) - The Feast of Pierbaldo
  Les Menestrels, Wiener Ensemble für Alte Musik

• Arte Nova 58969
  Oswald von Wolkenstein and his Italian contemporaries
  Les Menestrels

• RCA Victor LM 40 000 [LPx10]
  Storia della Musica Italiana (ed. Valabrega), Vol. 1
  Dal Canto Gregoriano a Carissimi
  Various performing groups

• Kapp KCL 9034 [LP, mono]
  The Festive pipes
  Vol. 1: Five Centuries of Dance Music for Recorders
  Krainis Recorder Consort

• Kapp KCL 9034 & Kapp 9049 [LPx2, mono]
  The Festive pipes
  Krainis Recorder Consort & Krainis Baroque Ensemble

• Collegium Stereo JE 105 [LP]
  The Italian Trecento
  The Columbia University Collegium Musicum - R. Taruskin, dir.

• Carosello BCA 7 011
  Musiche profane nel basso medio evo: Ars Nova
  B. Lucca, Nobile, Rapp, Poli, Smith

• Fono Gesellschaft Luzern S 30-4703 [LP]
  Musik aus dem Trecento
  S. Frei, W. Frei

• Pathé-France CPTC 2035 [LP]
  Musiques héraldiques
  Ensemble vocal & Groupe instrumental anciens de Paris - Roger Cotte, cond.

• Rivo Alto CRR 9707
  Ave Gloriosa Mater
  14th and 15th century music from Padua
  Nova Cantica - Roveri, dir.

• Erato ERA 42 025 [LP, 25cm, mono]
  Guitarre Classique
  Barna Kovats

• Adda 81 031 [LP]
  Cantiga, estampie du XIVe siècle
  Agnel, Bedel & Ferrari

• L'Anthologie sonore AS 8 [78 r.p.m., USA]
  Italian Ballades and Religious Songs of the 14th Century
  M. Meili, F. Seidersbeck

• L'Anthologie sonore AS 16 [78 r.p.m.]
  Dances of the Middle Ages (13th & 14th Centuries)
  G. Crunelle, Debondue, Clayette

• ATMA ACD2 2269
  Constantinople
  Musique du Moyen Âge et de la Renaissance
  Kiya Tabassian & Ensemble Constantinople

• Olifant OLCD 9545
  Ménétrier
  Philippe Gélinas

• MSR Classics 1094
  Christo è nato
  Lauding the Nativity in Medieval Italy
  Trefoil

• Melodiya S10 26433 004 [LP]
  J. Ciconia i evo vremia (J. Ciconia and his Time)
  Ancambl starinoi muziki (Ensemble of Ancient Music) Pro Anima

• Harmonia mundi HM 17 043 [45rpm, 17cm]
  Die Jagd
  Deller Consort

• Lumen 32018 [78rpm, 30cm]
  Sept siècles de musique sacrée - 1160 / 1791 ...8
  Anonyme, École Florentine, XIVe siècle - Anonyme, 13e siècle (attr. à Françon de Cologne)
  Yves Tinayre

• L'Oiseau-lyre (France) OL. 2 [78 r.p.m., 30cm]
  Anonyme / Jacopo da Bologna
  À vous, Vierge de Douçour ... / Lux Purpurata Radiis ...
  Archimbaud, Bonté, Lafosse, Tudesq, Brunold - Guillaume de Van, dir.

• Counterpoint/Esoteric CPT 605 [LP]
  Six Centuries of the Viola
  Milton Thomas & Georgia Akst

• Quartz Music 2125
  Segreti Accenti
  Italian Renaissance Music
  Cantar alla Viola

• Tactus 961602
  Putignano: Organ Works / Codex Faenza: Keyboard Tablatures
  Peretti / Stabentheiner

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