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Ensemble Leones is an early music ensemble founded by Marc Lewon in 2008 and is dedicated to the performance of secular music from the 12th to the 16th century, with particular attention to Medieval German repertories and early Renaissance instrumental music.[1][2][3][4][5]

Discography

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  • Les fantaisies de Josquin – The Instrumental Music of Josquin Desprez (Christophorus, 2011) – includes the première recording of "Sei gelobt, du Baum" by Arvo Pärt
  • Neidhart. A Minnesinger and his "Vale of Tears": Songs and Interludes (Naxos, 2012) – première recording of the Frankfurt Neidhart-Fragment
  • Colours in the Dark – The Instrumental Music of Alexander Agricola (Christophorus, 2013) – includes première recordings of agricology VIII & IX by Fabrice Fitch[6]
  • The Cosmopolitan – Songs by Oswald von Wolkenstein (Christophorus, 2014) with a preface by Dieter Kühn
  • Argentum et Aurum – Musical Treasures from the Early Habsburg Renaissance (Naxos, 2015)
  • Hör, kristenhait! Sacred Songs by the Last of the Minnesingers (Oswald von Wolkenstein, Der Mönch von Salzburg et al.), Ensemble Leones (Christophorus 2015)
  • Straight from the Heart – The Chansonnier Cordiforme, Ensemble Leones (Naxos 2016)

References

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  1. ^ "Die Faszination der Musik des Mittelalters. Marc Lewon im Porträt von Inés Zimmermann", in: TIBIA. Magazin für Holzbläser. Eine Vierteljahrsschrift, Issue 2/2012, pp. 89-92.
  2. ^ Roswitha Frey: "Marc Lewon: Halb Musiker, halb Forscher", in: Badische Zeitung, issue from 6 July 2010. Link to the article.
  3. ^ Christoph Kutzer: "ensemble leones", in: Miroque, issue no. 14 (III/2013), p. 75.
  4. ^ Frank Patalong: "Verlorene Melodien", in: SPIEGEL GESCHICHTE: Herrscher, Ketzer, Minnesänger - Die Menschen im Mittelalter (1/2015), pp. 126-9.
  5. ^ Marc Lewon: In German, in Latin and in French: an Annotated Account of a Harlaxton Concert Performance by Ensemble Leones, in: Mary Carruthers (ed.): Language in Medieval Britain: Networks and Exchanges, Proceedings of the 2013 Harlaxton Symposium, Donington (Shaun Tyas) 2015 (= Harlaxton Medieval Studies, vol. 25), pp. 144–151.
  6. ^ "Agricola VIII was written for Ensemble Leones", Fabrice Fitch: "Agricola VIII / Obrecht Canon III", in: Essays on Renaissance Music in Honour of David Fallows: Bon jour, bon mois et bonne estrenne, ed. by Fabrice Fitch and Jacobijn Kiel (Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Music, vol. 11), p. 181.
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