15th century German songs

Hildebrandston
Chansonniers Allemands du XVe siècle
Ferrara Ensemble - Crawford Young
Arcana 35 [CD]
Arcana 348 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Anon: Sei willekommen herre Christ (voices)
  2. Anon: Damoiselle (instrumental)
  3. Anon: Ich sachs eins mals den liechten morgensterne
  4. Anon: Ich sachs eins mals den liechten morgensterne (instrumental)
  5. Anon: Bruder Konrad (solo voice)
  6. Anon: In feuers hitz
  7. Anon: Es leit ein schloß in Österreich
  8. Anon: Ich sach ein bild (instrumental)
  9. Anon / Paul & Bartholomeus Hessen: Hoftanz Benzenhauer (instrumental)
  10. Anon: Lied vom Tanhäuser - Nun will ich aber heben an (voice, vielle)
  11. Anon: Christ ist erstanden (instrumental)
  12. Anon: Christ ist erstanden (instrumental)
  13. Anon: Christ ist erstanden (solo voice)
  14. Paul Hofhaimer: Gotts namen fahren wir
  15. Anon: Nun bitten wir den heilgen geist
  16. Anon: Hildebranston - Ich will zu land ausreiten (voices)
  17. Anon: Min freud möcht sich wol mehren (instrumental)
  18. Heinrich Isaac: Fortuna / Bruder Conrad (instrumental)
  19. Mönch von Salzburg: Mein traut gesell (solo voice)
  20. Anon: Puer natus est (instrumental)
  21. Hans Buchner: Tanzmass Benzenhauer (dulcimer solo)
  22. Anon / Hessen: Hoftanz Benzenhauer (instrumental)
  23. Anon: Der Wald hat sich entlaubet
  24. Anon: Ich spring an diesen Ringe

Performers: Kathleen Dineen (soprano), Susanne Norin (mezzo-soprano), Eric Mentzel (tenor), Stephen Grant (baritone), Randall Cook (vielle, viol), Debra Gomez (harps), Karl Heinz Schickhaus (hammered dulcimer), Crawford Young (lute), Ralf Mattes (lute)

Playing time: 59'

Recording date: November 1991

These songs are taken from the earliest surviving German-language sources for the new courtly songs of the Renaissance. Although earlier music in this style does not survive, there is evidence that it had already progressed beyond folk styles. Alongside these new musical forms were older monophonic styles perpetuated from the minnesangers of the medieval era, and soon perfect by the meistersingers, here exemplified by the Hildebranston.

Sources for the present recording are: Augsburger Liederbuch, Buxheimer Orgelbuch (transcribed here for other instruments), Glogauer Liederbuch, Lochamer Liederbuch, Mensuralkodex des Nikolaus Leopold. Known composers represented are Paul Hofhaimer (1459-1537), Heinrich Isaac (c.1450-1517), Mönch von Salzburg (c.1400), and Hans Buchner (1483-1538).

A specifically program devoted to the meistersinger repertory:

Hans Sachs und seine Zeit
Eberhard Kummer / Trio des Clemencic Consort
Stradivarius 33361

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Todd M. McComb