Neidhart von Reuental:
Winter deine mail
Mann hort nicht mer süessen schal
Willekommen sumerwetter
Si clagen das der winder

Colin Muset:
Volez oir

Hildegard von Bingen:
Patriarchen

Heinrich von Meissen:
Myn vroud ist gar czugangen

Albrecht von Johannsdorf:
Mich mac der tod von ir minnen wol scheiden

Carmina Burana:
Dulce solum

Oswald von Wolkenstein:
Ich sich und hör
Zwar alte schuld bringt neues laid

Estampie
Passamezzo
Sion plaude
Ecce letantur omnia
Alleluja
Caldy valdy
Estampie

The "Ars moriendi" ¬ the "art of dying" - is a term that appears again and again in the Middle Ages. Especially Oswald von Wolkenstein, but also other minnesingers, deal with the dwindling strength and the physical decay at the end of life. And most of all, the poets are always concerned with their personal fear of the afterlife.

Heinz Schwamm and Rainer Herpichböhm, who have formed the core of the ensemble für frühe musik augsburg for more than 40 years, are also close to this topic. They combine the "age complaints" of the minnesingers with youthful fresh dances and thus this "Memento mori" becomes a joyful and pleasurable confession.

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Recording: 29 -30 March at Maria Ward Saal, Augsburg (Germany)