We are happy to announce the French release of Dialogos’s CD Abbo Abbas, French and English polyphony of the year 1000, on March 26th by Ambronay Editions (distribution Harmonia Mundi).
Abbo Abbas features the oldest existing polyphonic music of medieval Europe, coming from the 10th century abbeys of Winchester (England) and Fleury sur Loire (France). This programme has already toured across Europe, each concert meeting with great success, and will be performed in the United States (East coast) in October 2009.
CD realised with the support of WDR3 Radio (Germany) and the Foundation Orange (France).
Musical samples:
Sancte Benedicte confessor domini
Alleluia. Ymera agias
Sint lumbi vestri
Congregati sunt, Deus...
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Since its foundation in 1997, Dialogos, the vocal ensemble directed and created by Katarina Livljanic, has emerged as one of the most outstanding and original medieval music
ensembles of the new generation. The ensemble’s projects link new musicological research with an innovative approach to medieval music performance, a theatrical dimension, and an expressive musicality. Dialogos is composed of women’s or men’s vocal ensembles, depending on the specific project. Since its first projects Dialogos has been acclaimed by critics (in journals such as Le Monde, Le Figaro, Diapason, New York Times) and has toured in most European countries, in the USA, Canada, North Africa and Latin America, in all the major early music festivals (Saintes, Utrecht, Ambronay, Royal Festival Hall of London, the Metropolitain Museum in New York...), including radio and television broadcasts.
Their CDs Terra Adriatica (released on the Empreinte digitale label), Lombards & Barbares and La Vision de Tondal (released on the Arcana label), Chant Wars (a coproduction with the ensemble Sequentia, 
released on the Sony-BMG label) have received press distinctions in international music magazines, including Diapason d'or, Choc du Monde de la musique, Goldberg 5 stars).
Current programs of the ensemble focus on the archaic medieval repertoires : plainchant from Southern Europe and musical theatre. Among the theatrical programs, there is a Glagolitic Tondal's Vision, staged by Sanda Herzic (in collaboration with Yoshi Oida, one of Peter Brook's principal actors) which was released as a CD in the spring of 2004 and was awarded the prestigious Diapason d'or de l’année 2004 and the Coup de cœur 2005 by the Académie Charles Cros. The project Chant Wars, a coproduction with the ensemble Sequentia, is centered on Carolingian chant and local traditions in Europe in the 9th and 10th centuries. Recent programs include Abbo Abbas, an innovative vision of 11th-century English polyphony (recording to be released in march 2009). Judith, a staged production of a biblical story from medieval Dalmatia received the award of the Split Festival (Croatia) for the best musical performance in 2007. Dalmatica, a new project in collaboration with Kantaduri, group of traditional cantors from Croatia, was premiered in 2008 at the Ambronay Festival.
Dialogos has been awarded a three year residency by the Ambronay Cultural Centre. Dialogos receives a subsidy from DRAC Ile-de-France – French Ministry of culture and communication.
• June 9th, Boston (MA), United States
Boston Early Music Festival
Programme: Judith
www.bemf.org
• June 13th, New London (CT), United States
Connecticut Early Music Festival
Programme: Judith
www.ctearlymusic.org
• June 20th, Schloss-Neuenburg, Germany
Montalbâne Festival,
Programme: Abbo Abbas
www.montalbane.de
• July 27th, Zadar, Croatia
St Donat Festival
Programme: Dalmatica
www.donat-festival.com
• July 29th, Split, Croatia
Split Festival
Programme: Dalmatica
www.splitsko-ljeto.hr
• August 24th and 25th, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Edinburgh International Festival
Programme: Tondal's Vision
www.eif.co.uk
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