Music by Heinrich Laufenberg

Kingdom of Heaven
Music by Heinrich Laufenberg and his contemporaries
Ensemble Dragma
Ramée RAM 1402 [CD]

Contents:

  1. Es taget minnencliche [text: WK 709 / melody: F-Sn 2371, fol. 120v]
  2. Myn trud gheselle (Anonymous, c.1460) [Wolf 2]
  3. Ich bin by ir [Bux 142] / Ich bin peý Ir [Loch 20](Anonymous, c.1450-1470)
  4. Bis grüst, maget reine [text: WK 764 / melody: Ferdinand Wolf]
  5. Ach Döhterlin, min sel gemeit [text: WK 708 / melody: F-Sn 2371, fol. 120v]
  6. Gruß senen Ich im hertzen traghe (Anonymous, c.1460) [Wolf 3]
  7. Ich wölt, daz ich do heime wer [text: WK 715 / melody: F-Sn 2371, fol. 120v]
  8. Ein lere rúft vil lut [text: WK 717 / melody: F-Sn 2371, fol. 121r & Riedel]
  9. Cum lacrimis (Anonymous, c.1460) [Wolf 1]
  10. Benedicite - Die triualt in dem obresten tron (Monk of Salzburg, late 14th C.) [CH-SGs 392, S. 58-59]
  11. Aliud Benedicite (Anonymous, c.1470) [Bux 70]
  12. Woluf, du böse welt gemein [text: WK 722 / melody: F-Sn 2371, fol. 120r]
  13. Ellende du hest vmb vanghen mich (Anonymous, c.1460) [Wolf 5]
  14. Kóm mir ein trost (Anonymous, c.1460) [Schedel 25]
  15. Ich fare do hyn do hyn wen eß muß syn [Wolf 4] / Ich var zú dir, Maria rein [text: Pfullingen 20 / melody: Loch 8](Anonymous, c.1450-70)
  16. Seit ich dich, hercz lib, leiden muß [Schedel 117] / Seyd ich dich hertzlieb [Bux 249](Anonymous, c.1460)
  17. Got geb vns allen [text: WK 726 / melody: F-Sn 2371, fol. 120r]
  18. Der winter will hin weichen [Loch 6] / Sequitur nunc tenor bonus trium notaru videlicet der wýnter dere will weýchen [Wroclaw] / Der winter will hin weichen [Lewon] / Der winter [Bux 34] (Anonymous, c.1460-70)
  19. Puer natus is vns gar schon [text: WK 777 / melody: F-Sn 2371, fol. 120v-r]
  20. Benedicite (Anonymous, c.1470) [Bux 224]
  21. Benedicite - Fron her du bist in ewigkait (Monk of Salzburg) [CG-SGs 392, S. 58-59]
  22. Benedicite (Anonymous, c.1470) [Bux 68]
  23. Es ist ein ingendig jor [text: WK 724 / melody: F-Sn 2371, fol. 121v]

Sources:
WK = Wackernagel, Philipp: Das deutsche Kirchenlied von der älteste Zeit bis zum Anfang des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. 2, Leipzig, 1867, nos. 701-798
F-Sn 2371, f. 120r-121v = sheets from the musical secion of Wackernagel's personal transcriptions from the now destroyed Codex F-Sm B.121
Wolf = Wolfenbüttel Lute Tablature (c. 1460): D-Wa VII B Hs Nr. 264
Bux = Buxheim Organ Book (c. 1470): D-Mbs Cim. 352b
Loch = Lochamer Song Book (c. 1450): D-Bsb Mus. ms. 40613
Ferdinand Wolf: Über die Lais, Sequenzen un Leiche. Mit Übertragungen von A. J. Schmid, Heidelberg 1841, p. 491 f., and music supplement IX
Riedel = tracings from Karl Riedel's bequest, ed. by Eitner, Rudolf: Notenbeilage zu Heft 6, in: Monatshefte für Musikwissenschaft 33 (1901)
Schedel = Schedel Song Book (c. 1460): D-Mbs cgm 810
Pfullingen = Pfullingen Song Book (c. 1470/80): D-Sl cod. theol. et phil. 4 190
Wroclaw = Wroclaw Organ Tablature (early 15th c.): PL-WRu I F 687

Performers
Agnieska Budzinska-Bennett (voice, harp, symphonia), Jane Achtman (vielle, bells), Marc Lewon (voice, plectrum lute, vielle), Hanna Marti (voice, symphonia - track #23), Elizabeth Rumsey (vielle - tracks #11,16)

Playing time: 77' 31"

Recording site and date:
Beuggen Castle, Rheinfelden, Germany [02/2014];
Rel. 2014

Heinrich Laufenberg (c.1390-1460) had most of his works of poetry (some with music) lost in the fires of Salzburg in 1870. The poetry was mostly preserved by 19th century scholarship, but the music for the present recording required more effort.

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