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

[I. Cubillo]

Has anybody checked Alan Kelly's HMV frechies? Maybe there's the clue...
more accurate than Copeland's lists, as Kelly did copy every register he
could read.

The recording expert reports' table at the beginning says this:

      -4-30
     -4-30
     BF/CF  3136?
     BF/CF  3160?
     H Fowler                    o
     Solesmes



It's a pity that Kelly's work puts an end in 1929. So there are no more
data... Despite this, the immediate prior recording seems to be the complete
Faust, recorded in Paris in March-April 1930, which ends in CF-3135-2 from
April, 3rd, 1930.



Iñigo Cubillo
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Harkin" <harkinmike at yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: [78-L] Gregorian Chant dates? [Addendum]



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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