Description
In a time when marriages – at least in the higher social strata – were arranged primarily for dynastic, political and financial reasons, marriages for love were probably a rarity, at best mildly ridiculed. Love – that was something rapturous, idealistic, which had nothing to do with the real world.
Not surprisingly, the numerous ‘love songs’ handed down from the Middle Ages mostly have a tragic content.
Although we can still suffer for love these days – there is often still hope. But even this hope could not have existed in the Middle Ages – and so all the pain, the great suffering of an unrequited, even unfulfillable love is revealed in lyric poetry of incomparable beauty. Longingly, the poets and composers describe their love for a distant princess – so distant that she was unattainable anyway.
In bitter verses they describe their agony and torment, whose only way out is only one: death.
Contributors:
- Robert Schuchardt – hurdy-gurdy, quinterne, moraharpa
- Katharina Hölzel – shawm, flutes, harp
- Martin Uhlig – lute, fiddle
- Viola Baither – vocals, portative
- Kathrin Kläber – vocals, glockenspiel
Order no.: 99076
Format: Audio CD
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Packaging: DigiPac
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