Dalmatica: Chants of the Adriatic Ensemble Dialogos

• 1 Ispovidajte se Gospodinu, jer je dobar 03:20
• 2 Sanctus. Osanna dulcis est cantica 02:36
• 3 O, prislavna Bozja Mati 02:20
• 4 Jube, Domine, nos tibi laudes canere / Consolamini, consolamini 07:16
• 5 Spavaj, spavaj, diticu, ti nebeski Kraljicu 01:48
• 6 O, Bog se rodo, Vitlijanjo 02:43
• 7 In principio erat Verbum 06:49
• 8 Velika nam djela ucini Gospodin 01:46
• 9 Pistula 02:56
• 10 U se vrime godista 02:10
• 11 Annuntiamus vobis universali gaudio / Naviscujemo vam opceno veselje 06:47
• 12 Tri su kralja idrila, da b Isusa vidila / Kad se Isus, Ditic, u Betlem porodi 02:54
• 13 Tota pulchra es, Maria 02:35
• 14 Slava, cast i hvala ti 01:40
• 15 Ante diem sanctum Paschae 03:49
• 16 Potamnjele oci moje od placa moga 01:55
• 17 Crucem tuam adoramus / Krizu sveti, Krizu blagi 04:29
• 18 Ego sum alpha et omega 02:54
• 19 Ja se kajem Boze mili 02:35
• 20 Govorenje Judino skalam na obisenje hodeci / Strofa / Kantanje 07:19
• 21 Svit se konca 05:31
• 22 Puce moj 03:13
• 23 Pismu novu svi pivajmo 03:22
• 24 Ante sex dies Pasche 06:23
• Total Runtime 01:29:10

Info for Dalmatica: Chants of the Adriatic

The Croatian region of Dalmatia has many musical treasures that have long been overlooked. Resting on the boundary of Roman Catholic and Byzantine worlds, the music here features rare pieces recovered from Latin manuscripts, and polyphonic Glagolitic chants. Dialogos performs these works, conducted by Katarina Livljanic.

„The Croatian coastal region of Dalmatica has a history of various global influences ebbing and flowing with periodic war and strife. In the end it left the region with a rich musical treasure trove of medieval liturgical music that incorporates in local ways both Catholic and Byzantine music strands.

The four female singers of Dialogos under Katarina Livljanic and the group of male traditional Croatian cantors, Kantaduri, under Josko Caleta, join forces for a fascinating journey into rare Latin manuscripts, oral tradition and the polyphonic Glagolithic chants of the area. They cover by disparate examples the holy season spanning the time of Advent through to Holy Week. All this on the splendid album Dalmatica, From Oral to Written Transmission: Chants of the Adriatic (Arcana 395).

The collection is endlessly absorbing, indeed at times showing an original fusing of East and West and a medieval-and-beyond primality. There is plenty of polyphony, monodic plainchant, archaic harmonizations and a strong Byzantine influence.

There is a wealth of examples that are inimitable, unexpected, and quite beautiful in the hands of the talented and mellifluous singers. This is something special, experienced in the hearing much more so than in the telling.

I will thus leave off attempting to describe in detail the many musical ins-and-outs to be heard. Instead I will heartily recommend you listen closely and repeatedly to this offering. It is most assuredly a different confluence of early music liturgical possibilities, excellently presented.“ (classicalmodernmusic)

Ensemble Dialogos
Katarina Livljanic, director Ensemble Kantaduri
Josko Caleta, director

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