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1953 – Harvard Glee Club

Chansons & Motets

Record Label in 1953 by # CRS-202
Performance Type Language Latin Verses vv. 1, 3, 5, 7 Duration 03:45
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Recording Medium / Mono, 10 inch vinyl, 33rpm
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“Chansons and Motets” – an album jointly released with the ladies of Radcliffe Choral Society – is the first known published recording of the Miserere by the Harvard Glee Club – America’s oldest collegiate glee club. Early recordings by the Harvard Glee Club are important, as they form a reference for Glee Club performance practice given the edition of the Miserere set for male voices by A. T. Davison, and published as part of the “Harvard University Glee Club Collection” by E C Schirmer Music Co in 1922.

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1957 – The Masterwork Chorus

A Stereophonic Study in Double Choruses

Record Label in 1957 by , # SWB 8020
Performance Type Language Latin Verses vv. 1, 3, 20 Duration 03:16
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Recording Medium / Stereo on 7-inch Open Reel Tape
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The Masterwork Chorus, directed by noted classical choral director, David Randolph, is devoted to singing the “works of the Masters”, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc. During the 1956-1957 season, the group will present works by Bach, Allegri, Lasso, Lotti, Monteverdi and Schütz. And in January, 1957, the Chorus will be commercially recorded – binaurally – by the Westminster Recording Company (The Item of Millburn and Short Hills, Millburn, New Jersey, 30th August 1956)

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Masterwork Chorus cover

1958 – The Masterwork Chorus

Monteverdi: Lagrime d'Amante al Sepolcro dell'Amata / Double Choruses by Schütz, Lotti, Allegri, and Lasso

Record Label in 1958 by # XWN 18596
Performance Type Language Latin Verses vv. 1, 3, 20 Duration 03:16
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Recording Type and Location made in in 1957
Recording Medium / Mono
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The Masterwork Chorus, directed by noted classical choral director, David Randolph, is devoted to singing the “works of the Masters”, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc. During the 1956-1957 season, the group will present works by Bach, Allegri, Lasso, Lotti, Monteverdi and Schütz. And in January, 1957, the Chorus will be commercially recorded – binaurally – by the Westminster Recording Company (The Item of Millburn and Short Hills, Millburn, New Jersey, 30th August 1956)

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1959 – The St. Meinrad Chancel Choir

Sacred Music by the St. Meinrad Chancel Choir (Passion – Blessed Sacrament)

Record Label in 1959 by # CC-9513
Performance Type Language Latin Verses vv. 1, 3, 5, 7 Duration 03:00
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Recording Type and Location made in in 1959
Recording Medium / Mono
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The first recorded performance of the Davison TTBB setting of the Miserere by an American collegiate choir in a purely sacred context. As to be expected from the choir of a religious seminary, the singing is of a higher standard, but interestingly the performance matches many of the glee club performances in style, tempo and use of dynamics.

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Harvard Glee Club cover

1961 – Harvard Glee Club

Des Prez: Missa Mater Patris et Filia

Record Label in 1961 by # LP 124
Performance Type Language Latin Verses vv. 1, 3, 5, 7 Duration 03:25
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Recording Medium / Mono
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The Davison (TTBB) arrangement of the Miserere is a poor second to Josquin’s ‘Missa Mater Patris et Filia’ included on Side One of this album, but the Miserere is unique in that it is presently the only know recording of the work made in The Philippines.

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1962 – Coro Vallicelliano di Roma

Storia della musica Italiana - Vol II, Disc 6: Il seicento. Side Two: La musica religiosa

Record Label in 1962 by # MLD 40001
Performance Type Language Latin Verses All odd numbered vv. & v. 20 Duration 09:29
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Recording Type and Location made in in 1959
Recording Medium / Mono
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The ‘Storia Della Musica Italiana’ of which this recording is a part was a lavishly presented set of 40 LPs, in four leather volumes each containing 10 discs presented together with a sumptuous booklet in a cardboard slipcase. The publication was compiled by Cesare Valabrega for RCA Italiana.

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1963 – Chor und Orchester von St. Michael, München

Musik in St. Michael München

Record Label in 1963 by # AMS 5012
Performance Type Language Latin Verses All odd numbered vv. & v. 20 Duration 09:49
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Recording Type and Location made in in 1962
Recording Medium / Stereo or Mono
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This performance of the Miserere by the Choir of St. Michael, München is oddly not recorded in their own church, but in an Abbey church some 25km north-west of Munich. Of early recordings, it is a superior performance “without abbellimenti”.

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1963 – Regensburger Domspatzen

Jubilate Deo

Record Label in 1963 by # 70 172 KK
Performance Type Language Latin Verses All verses Duration 09:56
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Recording Type and Location made in in 1962
Recording Medium / Mono
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A particularly fine rendition of the Miserere without abbellimenti, although this early pressing is far less acceptable than the later releases of the same recording.

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1964 – The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge

Evensong for Ash Wednesday

Record Label in 1964 by # ZRG 5635 (S) / RG 5635 (M)
Performance Type , Language English Verses All verses Duration 11:19
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Recording Type and Location made in , in 1963
Recording Medium / Stereo / Mono
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1963 landmark recording of Allegri’s Miserere featuring treble soloist Roy Goodman, set in the context of Choral Evensong for Ash Wednesday.

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1965 – The Masterwork Chorus

Monteverdi: Lagrime d'Amante al Sepolcro dell'Amata / Double Choruses by Schütz, Lotti, Allegri, and Lasso

Record Label in 1965 by # W-9622
Performance Type Language Latin Verses vv. 1, 3, 20 Duration 03:16
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Choir Country based in
Recording Type and Location made in in 1957
Recording Medium / Mono
Rating Rating: N/A Favourite: No Influential: No
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The Masterwork Chorus, directed by noted classical choral director, David Randolph, is devoted to singing the “works of the Masters”, Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, etc. During the 1956-1957 season, the group will present works by Bach, Allegri, Lasso, Lotti, Monteverdi and Schütz. And in January, 1957, the Chorus will be commercially recorded – binaurally – by the Westminster Recording Company (The Item of Millburn and Short Hills, Millburn, New Jersey, 30th August 1956)

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