Neidhart was one of the most popular Minnesingers – or “poet-musicians” – of the late Middle Ages. His songs deal with rustic, erotic and violent topics mediated, however, through court culture, which gives them a stylised, ironic sense of detachment. His division of songs into “summer” or “winter” adds another layer of complexity, with melancholy or dance-orientated topics prevailing, depending on the season. The instrumental music carries a rural character. The “Frankfurt Fragment” manuscript has never been recorded in full, and is here performed by one of the most outstanding ensembles in the field.

• Reuenthal: Allez daz den sumer (Everything that all summer long)
• Reuenthal: Cantilena ‘Der han’ (‘The cock’)
• Reuenthal: Clausula
• Reuenthal: Guoten wib wol üch der eren (Gracious ladies, you deserve honour)
• Reuenthal: Ich claghe de blomen (I mourn for the flowers)
• Reuenthal: Je muir, je muir (I die, I die)
• Reuenthal: Mir ist ummaten leyde (I am grieved beyond all measure)
• Reuenthal: Muteta ‘Non veul mari’ (I do not want a husband)
• Reuenthal: Sinc eyn gulden hoen (Sing, you golden hen) / stantipes ‘Der munich’ (‘The monk’)
• Reuenthal: Stantipes ‘Der hedamerschol’
• Reuenthal: Summer unde winder (Summer and winter)
• Reuenthal: Vil wol gelopter got (God, so highly extolled)
• Reuenthal: Willekome eyn sommerweter suze (Welcome the sweet summer weather)