Wâ vunde man sament sô manic liet? (Songs from the Codex Manesse)

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1.	Wâ vunde man sament sô manic liet? 04:58	info	buy track
2.	Ich grüeze mit gesange 06:34	info	buy track
3.	Ich weiz der herren manegen 02:22	info	buy track
4.	Ein wunder in der werlde vert 05:27	info	buy track
5.	Der kúnig Nabuchodonosor gesach in sime troume 05:44	info	buy track
6.	Min trûrichlichiz klagen 13:23	info	buy track
7.	In dem Würgendrüssel dône 05:05	info	buy track
8.	Tristan mueso sunder sinen dank 02:33	info	buy track
9.	Owe daz nach liebe ergat 04:26	info	buy track

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In the years around 1300 to about 1340, the wealthy Manesse family in Zurich collected the songs of famous minnesingers. The result, the Manesse song manuscript, also called Codex Manesse, contains about 6000 stanzas in Middle High German by the most famous poets of that time. The manuscript is also known for its colorful illustrations, in which the minnesingers are depicted in an idealized form.

Closely connected with the Manesse family was the minnesinger Johann Hadlaub, a citizen of Zurich (2nd half of 13th c. - beginning of 14th c.). Hadlaub even wrote a song about the family's talent for collecting songs, and about the process of creating the Codex Manesse: «Wa vunde man sament so manic liet?» (Where would one find so many songs together?), which provides the title for the concert, serves as Morai's starting point for a musical journey through the song manuscript. Although «only» texts, no music, are recorded in the Codex Manesse, some of the melodies have survived in other sources, such as the Jenaer Liederhandschrift, which was compiled around the same time as the Codex Manesse. Where no melodies have survived, Moirai re-creates a historically plausible version based on the surviving songs and melodic material in the Jenaer Liederhandschrift.

Similar perhaps to the contents of an iPod today, which gives an impression of the musical taste of its owner, the Codex Manesse provides an insight into the musical culture of the Manesse family around the year 1300. Following this comparison, the four musicians of Moirai «rummage», so to speak, at will in the Codex and illuminate a selection of the poets presented, whose songs are heard in the album.

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released October 14, 2022

Hanna Marti, voice
Karin Weston, voice
Mara Winter, medieval transverse flutes
Félix Verry, medieval fiddle

Recorded, mixed and mastered by Fred Schnyder Hiedl
September 2021

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Moirai Basel, Switzerland

Moirai is an ensemble specialised in the music of the middle ages.

Working with the musical material that lies in the mysterious field between musical notation and oral transmission, the ensemble not only strives to re-awaken these old songs gone silent, but also asks the question: Why are these songs relevant today, and perhaps more so than ever? ... more

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