Ensemble Dialogos et Katarina Livljanic dans Nexus Winchester

Presented by Philippe Maillard Productions (L-2-R-22-123841/3-22-12385). Clara Coutouly, voice Albrecht Maurer, vielle Norbert Rodenkirchen, flutes Ensemble Dialogos Katarina Livljanic, singing & direction NEXUS WINCHESTER English polyphonies around the year one thousand Extracts from the Winchester Troper (XIth century) and the Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi by Wulfstan of Winchester (XIth-XIIth centuries). Katarina Livljanic and her Ensemble Dialogos have accustomed us to fascinating projects: far from merely revealing music of early eras through flawless performances, they place it in context within both its cultural and social environment, bringing legendary figures to life. This is once again the case with this "Nexus Winchester" illustrating a famous episode in the religious life of the British Isles: on 19 February 964, the famous Bishop Aethelwold expelled the thoroughly depraved canons (they even attempted to poison the bishop) from his Winchester cathedral, replacing them with far more virtuous monks from Abingdon monastery. Drawing on the Vita Sancti Aetheluuoldi written by poet Wulfstan, a friend of the bishop and himself cantor at the cathedral, or on the Winchester Troper, Katarina Livljanic reconstructs this "putsch" a thousand years later. She notably restores a sonic dimension to it through hypnotic pages in which monody and polyphony intertwine.