Dialogos & Katarina Livljanić - Swithun! (2021) Hi-Res

Open the door onto one of the best-kept secrets of medieval music… It is the music from the Winchester Troper, one of the earliest, and most stunning sources of medieval polyphonic music, written in the first decades of the eleventh century, more than two centuries before the manuscripts of Notre-Dame polyphony. Without the existence of this repertory, our vision of music history would have been entirely different, and much poorer. Ensemble Dialogos offers a musical creation, placing the polyphonic music of tenth- and eleventh-century Winchester in a dialogue with virtuosic improvisations, while telling the story of a man haunted by visionary and terrifying dreams, as he tries to escape from three raging naked Furies, and finally finds salvation through Saint Swithun, a medieval Anglo-Saxon Superman. As you prepare to discover an unknown musical repertory from medieval England, you will be drawn into a stunning story about demons, dreams and miraculous healing, wondering whether the music you are listening to is archaic or incredibly modern.
Tracklist
1. Aelfeah adest, Ordbirhtus adest, Wulfsinus et Aelfric (1:49)
2. Regem regum dominum (5:32)
3. Pax huic domui (0:50)
4. Magna miracula (0:53)
5. Et licet extremus hominum (1:37)
6. Σὺ εἶ ἱερεὺς. Statuit ei dominus (2:07)
7. Alma fuit vicina dies (0:49)
8. Gloriosus vir sanctus Swithunus (1:43)
9. Cumque dies eadem benedicta (1:23)
10. In pace in idipsum (0:45)
11. Þa swefna beoð wynsume (2:14)
12. Qui post evigilans (3:28)
13. Auxilium, domine (4:48)
14. Sed cum nulla virum feritas (3:43)
15. Ecce vir prudens Swithunus (3:40)
16. Infirmo siquidem, cum nullum prendere somnum (6:49)
17. Laudemus dominum (3:28)
18. Talibus aegrotum (1:00)
19. Sint lumbi vestri (6:17)
20. Pervigilat ternis ibi noctibus atque diebus (5:55)
21. Hwæt, ða se halga Swyðun (1:17)
22. Alleluia. Via lux veritas (3:26)
23. Quid plura? (2:35)