Das Glogaguer Liederbuch. Songs, Comic Tales and Tails
Sabine Lutzenberger, Martin Hummel · Ensemble Dulce Melos, Marc Lewon

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Naxos 8.572576
2012

The Glogauer Liederbuch is a forgotten treasure, a rich repository of fifteenth-century music. It contains 292 songs, devotional chants and instrumental pieces which were performed by educated enthusiasts or students, not by professional musicians. The collection also includes several pieces known as ‘Schwanz’ (tail), which probably designates them as dances (‘schwanzen’ being a derivation of ‘tanzen’, i.e. dancing). The music sung or played in this Lower Silesian monastic community originated in many different countries, but all the pieces show a richly developed standard. The Liederbuch is the oldest known set of part-books from central Europe.





Suite I
01 - Christ der ist erstanden  GLOG 124  [0:36]
baritone, dulcemelos, Renaissance gamba
02 - Christ ist erstanden  GLOG 127  [0:47]
baritone, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco
03 - Christ ist erstanden  GLOG 94  [1:13]
soprano, baritone, recorder, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco

Suite II
04 - Der ratten schwanz  GLOG 113  [1:53]
plectrum lute, recorder, viola d’arco

Suite III
05 - [4:11]
In præclare Barbaræ GLOG 237
Beth — O wie gern  GLOG 285
O wie gern un doch entbern  GLOG 237
baritone, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco, viola d’arco ML

Suite IV
06 - [1:09]
Es solt ein man kein möle farn  GLOG 80
Rom peltier ODH 25
baritone, Renaissance guitar, dulcemelos, recorder, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco
07 - All voll  GLOG 183  [1:10]
soprano, baritone, recorder, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco

Suite V
08 - Der morgenstern, der ist uns aufgedrungen  GLOG 253  [2:01]
plectrum lute, dulcemelos, chekker
09 - Ich sachs eins mals, den lichten morgensterne  GLOG 189, 53  [2:49]
plectrum lute
10 - Die nacht, die wil verbergen sich  GLOG 249  [2:42]
soprano, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco, viola d’arco ML

Suite VI
11 - Der seiden schwanz  GLOG 8  [1:09]
plectrum lute, dulcemelos, chekker
12 - Zu aller zeit  GLOG 224  [3:04]
baritone, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco

Suite VII
13 - Elende du hast umfangen mich  GLOG 134  [2:55]
recorder, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco



Suite VIII
14 - O rosa bella  1. Str., CORD 7  [1:56]
soprano, viola d’arco ER, viola d’arco ML
15 - O rosa bella  BUX 103  [1:50]
recorder, viola d’arco, viola d’arco ER
16 - O rosa bella / In feuers hitz  GLOG 119  [1:37]
soprano, baritone, Renaissance gamba
17 - O rosa bella  BUX 39  [1:30]
plectrum lute, hackbrett
18 - O rosa bella / Hastu mir die laute bracht  GLOG 117  [1:32]
baritone, gittern, Renaissance gamba
19 - O rosa bella / Hastu mir die laute bracht  diminutions by Uri Smilansky  [1:46]
viola d’arco, viola d’arco ER
20 - O rosa bella / Wer da sorget  GLOG 118  [1:34]
soprano, baritone, Renaissance gamba
21 - O rosa bella  BUX 104  [1:30]
gittern, dulcemelos, chekker
22 - O rosa bella  2. Str., TR89 575  [1:51]
soprano, hackbrett, chekker, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco ER, viola d’arco ML

Suite IX
23 - [2:56]
Ich bins erfreut  GLOG 246
Die libte ist schön  GLOG 227
baritone, gittern, dulcemelos, Renaissance gamba

Suite X
24 - Der pfauen schwanz  Paulus de Broda,  GLOG 22  [1:50]
plectrum lute, dulcemelos, recorder, viola d’arco
25 - Der pfauen schwanz  GLOG 208  [0:57]
plectrum lute, recorder, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco

Suite XI
26 - [4:00]
In feuers hitz  GLOG 221 
Ach reine zart  GLOG 243 
Mole gravati criminum  GLOG 221 
baritone, plectrum lute, dulcemelos, chekker, Renaissance gamba

Suite XII
27 - Der entrepris  GLOG 102  [2:20]
plectrum lute, recorder, viola d’arco

Suite XIII
28 - Laetare, Germania  GLOG 21  [1:05]
soprano, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco
29 - Elslein, liebstes Elslein  GLOG 250  [2:22]
soprano, hackbrett, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco



Suite XIV
30 - Auf rief ein hübsches freuelein  GLOG 251  [1:03]
baritone, recorder, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco
31 - Zenner, greiner, wie gefelt dir das  GLOG 88  [0:39]
baritone, Renaissance guitar, dulcemelos, recorder, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco

Suite XV
32 - Groß senen / [J'ay pris amours]  GLOG 285  [1:14]
gittern, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco
33 - Die welt, die hat einen tummen sin  GLOG 256  [4:18]
baritone, plectrum lute, dulcemelos

Suite XVI
34 - Die katzenpfote  GLOG 13  [1:02]
gittern, chekker
35 - [untitled]  GLOG 100  [3:13]
dulcemelos, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco, viola d’arco ML

Suite XVII
36 - Nu bitten wir den heiligen geist  GLOG 123  [1:36]
soprano, Renaissance gamba

Suite XVIII
37 - Der vöglein art  GLOG 217  [2:39]
baritone, gittern, recorder, Renaissance gamba

Suite XIX
38 - Die eselkrone  GLOG 147  [1:45]
plectrum lute, recorder, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco

Suite XX
39 - Tärste ich mit libe kosen  GLOG 220  [1:45]
Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco, viola d’arco ML
40 - Ach got, wie ser zwingt mich die not  GLOG 252  [1:49]
baritone, dulcemelos, Renaissance gamba
41 - Der wächter an der zinnen  GLOG 248  [0:59]
dulcemelos, Renaissance gamba, viola d’arco



GLOG = Glogauer Liederbuch (Kraków, Biblioteka Jagiellońska, Ms. Mus 40098)
BUX = Buxheimer Orgelbuch (München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Cim. 352b)
ODH = Harmonice musices odhecaton A (Venezia: Ottaviano Petrucci, 1501)
CORD = Chansonnier Cordiforme (Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Rothschild 2973 (I.5.13))
TR89 = Trent Codex 89 (Trento, Castello de Buonconsiglio, Monumenti e Collezioni Provinciali, (formerly MS 89) MS 1376.

The abbreviations of the sources are according to David Fallows:
A Catalogue of Polyphonic Songs, 1415-1480, Oxford: University Press, 1999.
The numbers following these abbreviations refer to the number of the piece in the source
indicated as listed in the standard editions (e.g. GLOG 124 = Glogauer Liederbuch, piece number 124).





Martin Hummel, Baritone
1 3 5-7 12 16 18 20 23 26 30 31 33 37 40

Sabine Lutzenberger, Soprano
2 3 7 9 14 16 20 22 28 29 36


ENSEMBLE DULCE MELOS
Marc Lewon

Yukiko Yaita
Recorder 3 4 6 7 13 15 24 25 27 30 31 37 38
Chekker 8 11 21 22 26 34

Margit Übellacker
Dulcemelos 1 6 8 11 21 23 24 26 31 33 34 40 41
Hackbrett 17 22 29

Elizabeth Rumsey
Renaissance gamba 1-3 5-7 10 12 13 16 18 20 22 23 25 26 28-32 35-41
Viola d’arco ER 14 15 19 22

Uri Smilansky
Viola d’arco 2-7 10 12 13 15 19 24 25 27-32 35 36 38 39 41

Marc Lewon
Plectrum lute 4 8 9 11 17 24-27 33 38
Gittern 18 21 23 32 34 37
Viola d’arco ML 5 10 14 22 35 39
Renaissance guitar 6 31





Instruments and Makers:

Marc Lewon:
Plectrum lute – Stephen Gottlieb, London (UK) 2001
Gittern – George (Philip) Stevens, Lydd (UK) 2004
Viola d’arco – Richard Earle, Basel (CH) 2009
Renaissance guitar – Julian Behr, Wyhlen (D) 2005

Yukiko Yaita:
Tenor recorder – Francesco Li Virghi, Orte (I) 2003
Renaissance alto recorder – Yukiko Yaita, Yokohama (JP) 1998
Chekker – Martin Gust, Windhorst (D), 2001

Margit Übellacker:
Dulcemelos – Bernd Maier, Freiburg (D) 2003
Hackbrett – Alfred Pichlmaier, Fraunberg (D)1993

Elizabeth Rumsey: Renaissance gamba – Robert Foster, Wiveliscombe (UK) 2001
Viola d’arco – Richard Earle, Basel (CH) 2005

Uri Smilansky: Viola d’arco – Richard Earle, Basel (CH) 2007



A co-production with Bayerischer Rundfunk – Studio Franken
The Early New High German sung texts, along with Modern German and English translations,
can be accessed at www.naxos.com/libretti/572576.htm


Recorded at the Refektorium, Heilsbronn, Germany, from 9th-12th August, 2010
Executive producer: Thorsten Preuss • Producer and editor: Johannes Müller
Engineer: Klaus Brand • Booklet notes: Reinhard Strohm
Cover: Portrait of a Canon by Quentin Massys (1466-1530), Liechtenstein Museum, Vienna, Austria
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