Dialogos
Was Notre-Dame in Paris the place where the earliest polyphony originated? Not exactly. Take Winchester Cathedral, 964. The canons are kicked out, monks take over. What follows is a clash of voices: who may sing, who must remain silent? Ensemble Dialogos highlights that turning point with music from the Winchester Troparium: a collection like a chronicle of war, revealing how early polyphony wriggles free from Gregorian chant: raw, virtuosic, and unpredictable.
Programme
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Aetheluuolde, Aetheluuolde!
Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
(from: Wulfstan of Winchester, Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi, ed. M. Lapidge, British Library, Cotton Tiberius D. IV, London 11th-12th century) -
Alleluia. Iustus germinabit
Transcription: Susan Rankin
(from: Winchester Troper, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 473, 11th century) -
Blasphematores Dei
Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić & Norbert Rodenkirchen
(from: Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi) -
Iuxta vestibulum
Antiphon for Ash Wednesday
Transcription: Katarina Livljanić
(from: BNF, lat 18010, Gr. Corbie, 12th century) -
De Abbandonia
Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
(from: Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi) -
Servite domino
Transcription : Katarina Livljanić
(Communion, Paris, BNF, lat 18010, Gr. Corbie, 12th century) -
Cur foris moramur?
Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
(from: Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi) -
Beatus vir
Sequens
Transcription & reconstruction: Norbert Rodenkirchen
(from: Winchester Troper) -
Excommunicatio Leonis papae
Text: Monte Cassino, MS 451, 11th century
Melodic reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić -
Ex invidia
Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
(from: Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi) -
Berta vetula
Sequence
Transcription: David Hiley
(from: Winchester Troper) -
Ubi est fides tua?
Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
(from: Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi) -
Deus, deus meus
Transcription: Susan Rankin
(from: Winchester Troper) -
Invocation & Ploratum
Improvisation and sequence
Melody: Gloria resonante
Transcription & reconstruction: Norbert Rodenkirchen & Albrecht Maurer
(from: Winchester Troper) -
Accensa fides
Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić & Norbert Rodenkirchen
(from: Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi) -
Genealogia domini nostri Jesu Christi
Transcription: Katarina Livljanić
(from: Universität Wien, Institut für Österreichische Geschichtsforschung, no. 4, 13th century) -
Bucca excelsa
Sequens
Transcription: Norbert Rodenkirchen
(from: Winchester Troper) -
Visiones, somnia
Musical reconstruction: Katarina Livljanić
(from: Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi) -
Laude celebret
Sequentia: Via lux
Transcription: Susan Rankin
(from: Winchester Troper)
Programme subject to change
Musicians
- Clara Coutouly voice
- Albrecht Maurer fiddle
- Norbert Rodenkirchen flute
- Katarina Livljanić musical direction, voice, scenario
