music

In Tundale?s Vision, a sort of forerunner of Dante?s Divine Comedy, the soul of the knight Tundale roams heaven and hell. This twelfth-century Latin text by an Irish monk has been translated into many European languages and contains numerous references to liturgical chants. This allowed the musicologist Katarina Livljanic to make a musical reconstruction, for which she drew upon Latin and Slavonic sources. She and her Dialogos ensemble are among the international top rank when it comes to performing late-mediaeval religious music.

More and more musicians-researchers are exploring very early music. This cycle presents a sample of their discoveries. Dialogos and Sequentia offer musical reconstructions of literary works such as the Edda and The Vision of Tondal. The Capilla Flamenca takes us to a later period, that of the Ars Nova. The ensemble Mala Punica creates instrumental and vocal variations on French and Italian music of the fourteenth century.