A Surprise in Every Piece

We are filled with joy by this magnificent disc, in which every piece offers a new surprise (one must admire the care taken in varying the expression from strophe to strophe), and in which the singers vie with one another in expressiveness and sincerity.

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abbo abbas

chant wars

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Terra Adriatica
Italian and Croatian medieval sacred music

Terra Adriatica

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Voices:
Gro Siri Ognoy Johansen
Christine Laveder
Katarina Livljanić
Aino Lund Lavoipierre
Lucia Nigohossian
Cornelia Schmid
Sandrah Silvio

Directed by Katarina Livljanić

Recorded in November 1998 at the church of Lignières, France, by Maurice Salaun

Published by Empreinte Digitale, ED 13107

This first recording by Dialogos was a discovery of croatian medieval sacred music and relations between the learned and traditional music of the two coasts of the Adriatic Sea.

  1. Litanije Lauretanske
    Glagolitic chant from Poljica, province of Split, Croatia
  2. Sanctus. Hosanna dulcis est cantica
    Cartulary of St Mary, Zadar, 13th c.
  3. Plač Jeremije proroka
    Jeremiah's Lamentation; glagolitic chant from Poljica
  4. Puče moj
    Popule meus; glagolitic chant from Poljica
  5. Pokoj vječni
    Requiem aeternam; glagolitic chant from Poljica, accompanied by a glagolitic apocryphe Kako bratja prodaše Osipa, Oxford, Bodlean library, MS. Can. lit. 414, 15th c.
  6. Dixit Isaac patri suo
    Gregorian responsory; Monte Cassino, Ms. 542, 12th c.
  7. Annuntiamus caritatem
    Announce of the movable feasts; Evangeliarium, Osor, 11th c. – Biblioteca Vaticana, Borg. lat. 339
  8. Caminus ardebat
    Gregorian antiphon; Monte Cassino, Archivio della Badia, ms. 542, 13th c.
  9. Summe rex
    Troped Kyrie; Assisi, Bibl. municipale, Ms. 695, 13th c.
  10. Liber Generationis secundum Matthaeum
    Polyphonic reading; Zagreb, Antiphonaire de O. Thuz, 15th c., Biblioteca Metropolitana, MR 10
  11. Credo
    Bologna, Civico Museo Musicale, Ms. Q 11, 14th c.
  12. Ave donna santissima
    Laudario di Cortona, 13th c.
  13. Magdalene javkanje
    Traditional lauda, Mala Subotica, Croatia
  14. Magdalena degna da laudare
    Laudario di Cortona, 13th c.
  15. Laude novella sia cantata
    Laudario di Cortona, Cortona, Biblioteca comunale, ms. 91, 13th c.

MUSICAL SAMPLE

Puče moj (Popule meus)
(MP3, 0:56, 383 KB)

 

CONCERTS

• 6 February 2012
Bouffes du Nord, Paris, France, 20:30
Programme: excerpts from Judith (in the framework of the presentation Printemps des Arts de Montecarlo)
www.bouffesdunord.com

• 11 February 2012
Bozar Bruxelles, Belgium, 20:00
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.bozar.be

• 14 February 2012
Kasteel Ammerzoyen Ammerzoden, Netherlands, 20:15
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.kasteel-ammersoyen.nl

• 15 February 2012
Huis Bergh's Heerenberg, Netherlands, 20:
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.huisbergh.nl

• 17 February 2012
Vredenburg Leeuwenbergh Utrecht, Netherlands, 20:
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.vredenburg.nl

• 18 February 2012
Waalse Kerk Leeuwarden, Netherlands, 20:15
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
http://oudemuziek.bo9.nl

• 19 February 2012
Stichting laurenskerk Rotterdam, Netherlands, 20:30
Programme: Barlaam & Josaphat
www.laurenskerkrotterdam.nl