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.

Sabine Lutzenberger is a pioneer in the field of medieval song. She first acquired her reputation as a long-standing and influential member of the Augsburg Early Music Ensemble.

Martin Hummel had his musical training in Würzburg and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Kurt Widmer and René Jacobs. He teaches at the University of Music in Würzburg.

Contents:
• Christ ist erstanden
• Der ratten schwanz
• In præclare Barbaræ/O wie gern und doch entbern
• Es solt ein man/All voll
• Der morgenstern/Ich sach eins mals/Die nacht
• Der seiden schwanz/Zu aller zeit
• Elende du hast
• O rosa bella
• Ich bins erfreut/Die libe
• Der pfauen schwanz
• In feuers hitz/Ach reine zart/Mole gravati criminum
• Der entrepris
• Lætare, Germania/Elslein, liebstes Elselein
• Auf rief ein hübsches freuelein/Zenner, greiner
• Groß senen/Die welt, die hat einen tummen sin
• Die katzenpfote/[untitled]
• Nu bitten wir
• Der vöglein art
• Die eselskrone
• Tärste ich mit libe/Ach got/Der wächter