A film by Radislav Jovanov Gonzo.

The Dialogos ensemble presents a highly original DVD. Here, far from the traditional filming of a staged performance, Alpha and Katarina Livljanic offer a genuinely cinematographic work based on the epic poem of the Croatian writer Marko Marulic.

Musically speaking, this project comes into the category of a ‘reconstruction’, inspired by listening to and studying Dalmatian Gregorian and Glagolitic sources from the time of Marulic and by melodies of oral tradition. In this research, it was necessary to study the most archaic layers of what is known as Glagolitic chant.

This repertory, curiously sung in the local vernacular even though it belonged to the Roman rite, was preserved in manuscripts written in the Glagolitic alphabet used in medieval Croatia. The archaic beauty of the text is fabulously illustrated here by images of incredible aesthetic refinement.

For lovers of fine sound recordings, Alpha offers as a bonus CD the audio version of the project as realised at the time of filming.

1 DVD (Subtitles: French, Croatian, German, English - Time: 66’, not including making of - PAL)
1 CD Bonus