Heretical Angels - Rituals of Medieval Bosnia & Herzegovina

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Arcana
Release Date
April 26, 2024
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    Featuring ⌄
    • COMPOSER
      Anonymous
    • PERFORMER
      Dialogos, Katarina Livljanic, Kantaduri, Josko Caleta
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      April 26, 2024
    • UPC
      3760195735602
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      A560
    • LABEL
      Arcana
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Orchestral & Symphonic
    Works ⌄

    1. Si kamin [Kosor, Bosnia and Herzegovina, ca. 1411]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Kantaduri

    2. Glava hr'stova [Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. Illir. 11, 14th-15th century]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Dialogos

      Performer: Katarina Livljanić

    3. Iskoni bje slovo [Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. Illir. 12, ca. 1444-1461]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Kantaduri

    4. Zašto gospod bog satvori sai sviet? [Plovdiv, Bibl. narodna, ms 116 (54), 14th century]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Dialogos

      Performer: Katarina Livljanić

    5. A se leži bratmio [Peljave, Bosnia and Herzegovina, 16th century]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Kantaduri

    6. Zaklinam tebe, prinecisti dusce [Bartol Kašić, Rituale Romanum Illyrica Lingua, ca. 1640]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Dialogos

      Performer: Katarina Livljanić

    7. Koli že krešten ne budet [Dušanov zakonik, Beograd, Narodni muzej, ms. 688, 14th century]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Dialogos

      Performer: Katarina Livljanić

    8. Oče naš [Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. Illir. 12, ca. 1444-1461]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Kantaduri

    9. Kad se duša s tilom dili [HAZU, IV a 77, Ćokovac-Tkon, ca. 1614]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Dialogos

      Performer: Katarina Livljanić

    10. O Gospojo uzvišena [Toma Babić, Cvit razlika mirisa duhovnoga, ca. 1726]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Kantaduri

    11. I znamenie velie [Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. Illir. 12, ca. 1444-1461]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Katarina Livljanić

    12. Braćo, brata sprovodimo [Paris, BNF, ms. slav. 11, 14th century]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Kantaduri

    13. Glas veliki trublje ove [Vartal, Zagreb, Archives HAZU, ms. IV a 31, 16th century]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Katarina Livljanić

    14. Dan od gnjiva [Čemerno, Bosnia]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Kantaduri

    15. Pisma od tašte slave [Toma Babić, Cvit razlika mirisa duhovnoga, ca. 1726

      Composer: Anonymous

      Performer: Jure Miloš

    16. Bože, davno ti sam legao [Bosnia and Herzegovina, 14th-16th century]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Kantaduri

      Performer: Katarina Livljanić

    17. Stah, boga moleći [Bosnia and Herzegovina, 14th-16th century] - Si knigi piše Radosav krstienin [Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Borg. Illir. 12, ca. 1444-1461]

      Composer: Anonymous

      Ensemble: Kantaduri, Dialogos

      Performer: Joško Ćaletea


"When I wanted to exist, I couldn’t”. Mystical inscriptions on ancient Bosnian tombstones inspired this programme.

Medieval Bosnia fascinates us with its coexistence of religions: Catholics, Orthodox, heretical Bosnian Christians, Jews and Muslims… Their texts and traditions survive in the oral tradition, in mysterious manuscripts in Latin, Cyrillic and Glagolitic script, and on inscriptions from tombstones: monuments through which the dead speak to the living.

As an exploration into ancient pagan and Christian rites from the heart of the Balkans, Heretical Angels bears witness to the traditions of Bosnian Christians, who were persecuted by the medieval Catholic and Orthodox churches alike. Intertwining the tombstone inscriptions with exorcisms and meditations, Katarina Livljanic, Dialogos and Kantaduri have created a story of poignant canticles that comes close to musical theatre and invite us to follow pagan and Christian rites surrounding birth and death. In this programme, after the success of the CD Dalmatica (Diapason d’or in 2016), Dialogos meets traditional cantors – among them one of today’s youngest epic singers in Herzegovina – to seek peace and meaning in a land devastated by wars, at the gateway to the East.