The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #140608   Message #3231923
Posted By: Jack Campin
30-Sep-11 - 06:28 PM
Thread Name: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
Subject: RE: Tune Req: Pre-1700 winter & Christmas tunes, pls
Another song, if a rather different one: Neidhart von Reuental's "Winder wie ist nu dein kraft"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmDlOwSyqsw

I can't find a YouTube performance I'd pay to listen to. In a few minutes of searching I've found an unspeakably bungled and out-of-tune recorder duet, a version off an LP where the notes are all absolutely of even length like a bad MIDI, a version by an early music group trying to sound like a Teutonic death metal band, a race between guitar and viol where the music comes in third, and a flashy performance on the harp which gets the melody wonderfully lively and expressive but she forgets to *sing* it.