Dalmatica is dialogue in a pilgrimage between Advent and Easter, between two refined ensembles full of beautiful vocal force: men’s ensemble performing Glagolitic chant in church Slavonic language, and the women’s ensemble performing in Latin. These chants have crossed centuries: they exude sunshine and a potent vocality where East and West dialogue in unity.
Sophie Dezel, Aime Magazine
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The polyphonic passages are astringently beautiful, while the monophonic sections tend towards the ecstatic... The singers of Dialogos... embrace differing textures of their voices, and the effect is striking and quite lovely. This is a truly unique and very beautiful recording.
CD-hotlist.com
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Barlaam and Josaphat: A Musical Glossolalia in the Royal Chapel of Drottningholm
And it is precisely this journey through languages that constitutes one of the most fascinating elements of the entire work. The text emerges from fragments belonging to seven different linguistic traditions: Greek, Latin, Old Church Slavonic, Old Croatian, Old French, Old Occitan, and Italian.
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Ms. Livljanic enacted the ancient drama with splendidly pure singing in Croatian, urgent narration, a penetrating gaze and expressive hands. (…) What makes “Judith” seem almost startlingly modern and metaphysical at times is Ms. Livljanic’s incorporation of other 16th-century texts dealing with inner dialogues at climactic moments in the story.
The New York Times, USA (Lincoln Center, New York)
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