[78-L] Gregorian Chant dates? [Addendum]

[Mike Harkin]

Dates confirmed by Peter Copeland's dating guide for Europena HMV.  Pearl CD gives mxx as CF3136-54 and 3156=60, which doesn't match up.

The original issues were W1115-26 [France], D1917-28 [UK], 7341-56 [US Victor].  So:-  it looks like you have half of it, as you refer to only six records?  And I would guess the 12xxx numbers are either a later re-issue, OR a renumbering of the set in automatic sequence, as this series dates from the very late 30's.

I wuld have guessed the Abbey church even without outside confirmation:
it doesn't SOUND like a studio recording; AND, I can't imagine a monastery full of Benedictine monks shlepping up to Paris for a week to make a studio
recording!

Mike in Plovdiv

--- On Sat, 6/27/09, Christopher Steward <chris.1picc at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:

> From: Christopher Steward <chris.1picc at yahoo.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [78-L] Gregorian Chant dates?
> To: "78-L Mail List" <78-l at klickitat.78online.com>
> Date: Saturday, June 27, 2009, 2:15 AM
> Recorded between 8 & 14 April
> 1930 in Paris Abbey Church (assuming second takes were
> recorded on the same day as the first takes).
> Chris
> 
> --- On Fri, 26/6/09, Bryan Wright <bryan at claxtonola.com>
> wrote:
> 
> 
> From: Bryan Wright <bryan at claxtonola.com>
> Subject: [78-L] Gregorian Chant dates?
> To: 78-l at klickitat.78online.com
> Date: Friday, 26 June, 2009, 8:56 PM
> 
> 
> I just picked up a beautiful set of Gregorian Chant records
> on Victor  
> M-87 (recorded by the Choir of Monks of the Abbey of
> Saint-Pierre de  
> Solesmes). Does anyone know when and where these were
> recorded? I see  
> the oval "VE" bug in the runout, so I'm guessing late 1920s
> or early  
> 1930s. The labels state "Recorded in Europe" (obviously),
> but were  
> these made in a studio, or did Victor's European affiliate
> take  
> portable equipment to the abbey? The sound is rich and
> spacious. I'm  
> just curious. The matrix number in the runout of the first
> side is CF  
> 3151-2. Individual records in the 12-inch six-record set
> are numbered  
> 12544 through 12549.
> 
> Thanks,
> Bryan W.
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