Everything about this CD is a stroke of genius, beginning with the title (…). The Sequentia/Dialogos tandem has proved to be one of the most fruitful for medieval music. Their understanding of the structural and grace notes gives rise to a subtle interpretation which in some passages produces an intriguing heterophonic effect.
dialogos
programmes
discography
press clippings
photos
study with dialogos
9 by Répertoire
Choc du Monde de la Musique
5 by Diapason
5 stars by Goldberg
Joker by Crescendo
A joint realisation by: Dialogos (directed by Katarina Livljanić) & Sequentia (directed by Benjamin Bagby)
Voices:
Benjamin Bagby
Olivier Delafosse
Olivier Germond
Katarina Livljanić
Vincent Pislar
Branislav Rakić
Jean-Paul Rigaud
Wolodymyr Smishkewych
Michael Loughlin Smith
Recorded: 15–19 November, 2004 in the grand réfectoire of the Abbey of Fontevraud (France), by John Newton, Philipp Nedel, Soundmirror, Inc. (Boston, USA). Edition Deustche Harmonia Mundi / Sony BMG.
I. The myth of Gregorian Chant
1. Gregorius praesul
(trope: Prologus antiphonarii)
II. Traces of oral chant traditions from Rome and Gaul
2. Ad dominum dum tribularer
(gradual: Roman schola chant)
3. In convertendo dominus
(Roman psalmody in directum)
4. Venite, populi
(Gallican antiphon ad communicandum)
III. Germanic voices
5. Domine, exaudi orationem meam
(tractus from St. Gall)
6. Natus ante saecula
(sequence by Notker of St. Gall)
IV. A new Roman chant tradition?
7. Alleluia: Prosechete laos
(Alleluia in Greek)
8. Saepe expugnaverunt
(tractus)
9. Deus enim firmavit
(offertory)
V. Chant in Frankish books and memories
10. Laudate dominum
(psalmody alleluiaticum)
11. A solis ortu usque ad occidua
(lament on the death of Charlemagne, 814)
12. Collegerunt pontifices
(processional antiphon)
13. Christus vincit
(Laudes regiae: acclamations for the emperor)
Laudate dominum
(MP3, 1:50, 755 KB)
Gregorius praesul
(MP3, 1:40, 686 KB)
• 5 June 2010
International Society for the Performing Arts
ISPA Pitch session
Zagreb, Croatia
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.ispa.org
• 5 July 2010
Festival Summer Evenings
Zagreb, Croatia
Programme: Judith
www.kdz.hr
• 15 July 2010
International Festival of Sacred Music
Fribourg, Switzerland
Programme: Dalmatica
www.fims-fribourg.ch
• 28 August 2010
Festival of sacred and baroque music, Froville, France
Programme: Abbo Abbas
www.froville.com