Sabine Lutzenberger & Norbert Rodenkirchen
A short excerpt from the CD "In vergessenen Toenen - Die Sangsprueche Meister Frauenlobs" (Heinrich von Meissen) released in SEP 2014 by marc aurel edition/Raumklang.
CD available at www.raumklang.de
or at
www.norbertrodenkirchen.org

Lutzenberger & Rodenkirchen perform music of Meister Frauenlob, "Ich saz uf einer gruene"

This is an excerpt from the song Granum Sinapis (das Senfkorn) in Middle High German by Meister Eckart. It was (and is here) sung to the melody of a phrase from a sequence called Prunis Datum by Adam de St. Victor. This recording is an excerpt from the CD "In vergessenen Toenen / Die Sangsprüche Meister Frauenlobs", to be released in NOV 2014 at the label marc aurel edition/Raumklang. Infos under: www.norbertrodenkirchen.org

Sabine Lutzenberger &  Norbert Rodenkirchen perform Meister Eckart  "Granum Sinapis"

The dark melody of the Rattenfaenger? A mysterious 13th ct. melody of Wizlaw III from Ruegen – documented in the Jenaer Liederhandschrift: Der Ungelarte hat gemachet eyne senende wyse. Wizlaw quotes here the "longing tune" (die sehnende Weise) of his artistic mentor, the "Spielmann" der Ungelarte, who lived in exactly the same time as the enigmatic flute player who appeared in June 1284 in Hameln and took with him 130 adolescents out of the city. Today we know from antropological research that they went to the Baltic coast (Pommern and Ruegen).
Wizlaw´s father, the duke of Ruegen sent out so called locators to invite German settlers to come to his lands. Was the Ungelarte a locator who went to the Weserbergland (f.e. Hameln) with his special mission? And is this melody consequently the original tune of the Rattenfaenger?


Original Rattenfaenger melody: Die sehnende Weise des Ungelahrten / Wizlaw

Scivias Chor, live at Tage alter Musik, Regensburg 2005
direction: Gilslinde Strunz (scene) and Norbert Rodenkirchen (music)

singers: Rebecca Bain, Katherine Hill, Cora Schmeiser, Inga Schneider, Uta Kirsten, Stephanie Pan, Mikari Shibukawa, Petra Koerdt
diabolus: Elio Polpolo
fiddle: Susanne Ansorg
flute + harp: Norbert Rodenkirchen
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Hildegard von Bingen "Ordo Virtutum", Scivias Chor 2005

This is a live recording in one long track from a solo concert I gave in July 2012 during the festival "Musica Cortese" in the castle of Gorizia / Italy. I post this as a complementary live version to my just released studio CD, published by CHRISTOPHORUS, Note1 records. Of course the studio CD is in excellent sound quality whereas this live version was recorded with a simple hard disc recorder. So the sound quality is much poorer here. But I hope you enjoy to listen to the flow of the live performance. Except cutting out announcements and applause breaks and one minor interruption during the concert there has been no further editing for this track. For more information: www.norbertrodenkirchen.org

Hameln anno 1284, live version

A flute version of one of Oswald´s most haunting melodies.
Played live by Norbert Rodenkirchen on a medieval flute in D made by Giovanni Tardino.
www.norbertrodenkirchen.org

Oswald von Wolkenstein: Var Heng Und Lass

Medieval flute / lost tracks
What to do with the lost tracks which never made it to a CD not because they were not good enough but because of completely other reasons? Should they remain unheard? Some of these pearls are lying in the crypta of my personal sound archive and I hope to bring out one or two from time to time to upload them for free on soundcloud and youtube. Enjoy, it is just for you.

Medieval flute version of sequence from Koeln "Gaude Felix Agrippina"

Medieval roots / Inventor rutili
Norbert Rodenkirchen - Medieval transverse flute

The 15th ct. Pepys manuscript is a rare musical document preserving sacred music of the late Middle Ages, sounds surviving from the times before Henry VIII. Here we have a Gregorian Easter hymn "Inventor rutili" from much earlier times in a highly ornamented version; the Renaissance style ornaments and rhythmic adaptions are all part of the manuscript´s contents. A special glimpse into the paraphrasing of early medieval monody during Renaissance times in England.

flute version of medieval hymn "Inventor rutili"

La prime estampie, the first of eight "estampies royales, roiales, reales" in the 13th ct.Chansonnier du Roi remains only as a fragment. That is the reason it is rarely played because it is needs reconstruction of the resting parts. My reconstruction is based on a new observation by comparing the first print of the facsimile nearly 100 years ago with todays online sources, which contain 2 mm less of the staff notation in the destructed line above the fragment. These extra millimeters provide enough information to reconstruct half of the phrase before the fragment. So I was able to propose a new punctum prior to the already existing two. Additionally I composed a stylistically and motivically coherent punctum 1 so that the estampie consists now of 4 puncti.
The track is part of my new CD "Medieval Echoes". Please check: http://www.nemu-records.com/nemu-023.html

Medieval Echoes

La prime estampie royal

A long meditative improvisation on just one medieval flute, wandering through 12 melodies for the 13th century.
CD, released in 2001, still available at www.raumklang.de
or
www.norbertrodenkirchen.org

Tibia ex tempore - Medieval sketches

Medieval flute today  
FLUTE PLAYER (FROM BONEFLUTE TO BAROQUE TRAVERSO), 
COMPOSER, IMPROVISER

Norbert Rodenkirchen

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