Performer: Dialogos
Conductor: Katarina Livljanić
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Arcana
Catalogue: A491
Release: 2021
Size: 1.14 GB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: yes
01. anon.: Aelfeah adest, Ordbirhtus adest, Wulfsinus et Aelfric
02. anon.: Regem regum dominum
03. anon.: Pax huic domui
04. anon.: Magna miracula
05. anon.: Et licet extremus hominum
06. anon.: Σὺ εἶ ἱερεὺς. Statuit ei dominus
07. anon.: Alma fuit vicina dies
08. anon.: Gloriosus vir sanctus Swithunus
09. anon.: Cumque dies eadem benedicta
10. anon.: In pace in idipsum
11. anon.: Þa swefna beoð wynsume
12. anon.: Qui post evigilans
13. anon.: Auxilium, domine
14. anon.: Sed cum nulla virum feritas
15. anon.: Ecce vir prudens Swithunus
16. anon.: Infirmo siquidem, cum nullum prendere somnum
17. anon.: Laudemus dominum
18. anon.: Talibus aegrotum
19. anon.: Sint lumbi vestri
20. anon.: Pervigilat ternis ibi noctibus atque diebus
21. anon.: Hwæt, ða se halga Swyðun
22. anon.: Alleluia. Via lux veritas
23. anon.: Quid plura?
Open the door onto one of the best-kept secrets of medieval music… It is the music from the Winchester Troper, one of the earliest, and most stunning sources of medieval polyphonic music, written in the first decades of the eleventh century, more than two centuries before the manuscripts of Notre-Dame polyphony. Without the existence of this repertory, our vision of music history would have been entirely different, and much poorer.
Ensemble Dialogos offers a musical creation, placing the polyphonic music of tenth- and eleventh-century Winchester in a dialogue with virtuosic improvisations, while telling the story of a man haunted by visionary and terrifying dreams, as he tries to escape from three raging naked Furies, and finally finds salvation through Saint Swithun, a medieval Anglo-Saxon Superman. As you prepare to discover an unknown musical repertory from medieval England, you will be drawn into a stunning story about demons, dreams and miraculous healing, wondering whether the music you are listening to is archaic or incredibly modern.