Roberto - I can't recommend any CDs of historical and traditional songs because I never was interested in them. I have a not so small collection of songbooks old and new, and I play and sing the songs myself. It is more fun for me doing than listening canned music. When listening I prefer it live, like at a Mudcat Gathering.

Back to Wolfgang Roth. I do not like his style of singing. He sounds emphatic and apodictical - like all the communist or leftist agitators I have heard in my youth, Ernst Busch included.

More about his frauds:

- Song of the Old Landsknecht Wir alten Soeldner: Not old, beginning of 20th century
- Landsknecht's Farewell Innsbruck, ich muss Dich lassen: Never a lansquenet song. A lover's parting song, ascribed to Emperor Maximilian I. (mentioned above in a former post) 1493
- Landsknecht's Lament - Es ist ein Schnee gefallen: Never a lansquenet song; an old love song, several different versions
- Landsknecht's Song from the 16th Century - Der Tod reit' auf einem kohlschwarzen Rappen: Originated 1917 in Flanders, finished by Elsa Laura von Wolzogen
- Lullaby of the Thirty Years War - Horch, Kind, horch wie der Sturmwind weht: Written by Ricarda Huch (1864 - 1947), tune added by the Wandervogel movement
- Peasant Band, Which Lost Its Way - Wilde Gesellen vom Sturmwind zerweht: peasant band is bloody nonsense. The song comes from the youth movement of the 20th century, written by Fritz Sotke (1902 - 1970), and is about wandering gypsies

to name only a few. I'm a scientist, and here I miss the the usual sincerity of my profession.