Utwory na płycie:

• Vom heiling geist
• Keuschlich geboren
• Pulcherrima de vigine
• Von anegeng der sunne kchlar
• Hör, kristenhait
• Heyligs kreucz ein paum gar aine
• Mich tröst ain adeliche mait
• Indescort
• O Maria pya
• O Regina clementissima
• In Suria ain braiten hal
• Resonet in laudibus
• Maria ward ein pot gesanndt
• Virginem mire pulchritudinis
• Mein trost Maria reine mait
• Maria tusolacium
• Ave mater o maria

1 Michel Beheim (c 1420-1472/9) Vom heiling geist/Heiliger geist, rat und volleist 1:25
Kurze Weise, Beh 29, M291
2 Oswald von Wolkenstein (c 1376-1445) Keuschlich geboren Kl 38, WolkB 8:17
3 Anonymus Pulcherrima de virgine (instr.) Bux 228 0:57
4 Der Mönch von Salzburg (late 14th c.) Von anegeng der sunne kchlar (instr.) G 21, W4494 4:22
5 Oswald von Wolkenstein Hör, kristenhait! Kl 4, WolkB 4:53
6 Der Mönch von Salzburg Heyligs kreucz ein paum gar aine G 25, M715 8:32
7 Oswald von Wolkenstein Mich tröst ain adeliche mait Kl 78, WolkA & B 4:10
8 Anonymus Indescort (instr.) Faenza, Nr. 14 2:58
9 Der Mönch von Salzburg O Maria pya G 9, Kolmar & Donaueschingen 4:16
10 Richard Loqueville, (?-1418) O regina clementissima (instr.) MuEm, Nr. 28 2:05
11 Oswald von Wolkenstein In Suria ain braiten hal Kl 35, WolkB 3:15
12 Fridolin Sicher (1490-1546) Resonet in laudibus (instr.) SG530, Nr. 23 1:21
13 Der Mönch von Salzburg Maria ward ein pot gesanndt G 46, Egh 3 5:52
14 Anonymus Virginem mire pulchritudinis (instr.) Bux 75 2:50
15 Der Mönch von Salzburg Das guldein vingerlein des münchs/14:21
Mein trost Maria raine mait G 11, Mondsee
16 Anonymus Maria tusolacium (instr.) Bux 74 1:08
17 Oswald von Wolkenstein Ave, mater, o Maria Kl 109a, WolkB & BU 8:28

The greatest German poets of song lyrics during the late Middle Ages, the Monk of Salzburg and Oswald von Wolkenstein, as the "last of the Minnesingers", are not only representatives of the flowering of the secular poetry and music of their time. They were also important composers of sacred music in the German language, an aspect that has hardly received attention so far.

This recording, "Hör, kristenhait!" (Listen, Christendom!), by the Ensemble Leones, presents this profoundly devout side of both musicians in which they employ their entire poetic and compositional energy: the Monk of Salzburg with his own German texts sung to Gregorian melodies, and Oswald von Wolkenstein with his new and splendid tunes. The song-speech poet Michel Beheim also makes his voice heard with the invocation to the Holy Spirit that opens the programme. The CD is completed by instrumental adaptations of sacred works by composers of this epoch.

The highly experienced singers Sabine Lutzenberger and Raitis Grigalis stand by the side of the ensemble director Marc Lewon, who accompanies them with Baptiste Romain on various instruments of the period.

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Recording: 12-15 October 2013, Deutschlandfunk Kammermusiksaal, Cologne (Germany)