The sources and mainstreams of European music from the thousand years before the birth of Bach.
Program: #22-03, Air Date: 01/17/22
Katarina Livljanic and the Dialogos Ensemble’s latest project gives us a tale of “Demons and Miracles from Winchester around 1000,” dedicated to the 9th century Anglo-Saxon St. Swithun, this week.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #19-37, Air Date: 09/02/19
The endlessly inventive ensemble Dialogos and leader Karatina Livljanic have found a medieval saint’s tale that is a retelling of the life of the Buddha in Christian form; this amazing work has finally been recorded.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #05-01, Air Date: 12/27/04
Note: All of the music on this program is from a live concert given at the Holland Festival of Early Music at Utrecht 2004 featuring the ensembles Dialogos and Sequentia. This is an attempt to reconstruct the tension as the vast editorial work of standarizing the Christian liturgy began under Charlemagne.
Read more and hear this show…Program: #07-11, Air Date: 03/05/07
Because of its centrality and continuity, the early liturgy of the Roman Christians is perhaps the earliest we can reconstruct—we'll hear some examples.
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