Few composers can have boasted quite such a colorful existence as the medieval poet and sometime diplomat Oswald von Wolkenstein (c.1376-1445). Having grown up in a Tyrolean castle, in a world recently ripped apart by the Black Death and immersed in religious and territorial conflict, Wolkenstein became something of a wandering knight with a complicated private life. If his travels greatly embellished the subject matter of his works, they also enriched the musical form, as he incorporated French songs forms into the German style. A singer of warm humanity, Andreas Scholl s strikingly communicative voice has greatly endeared him to critics and public alike. This program, the result of new research into Wolkenstein, features previously unrecorded songs and instrumental arrangements and Scholl singing in both his counter-tenor and baritone voice ranges.