Dialogos: Nexus Winchester - A Coup in the Cathedral around the Year 1000 - COMPACT DISCS

Dialogos: Nexus Winchester - A Coup in the Cathedral around the Year 1000 - COMPACT DISCS

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Title:

Nexus Winchester - A Coup in the Cathedral around the Year 1000

Artist:

Dialogos

Label:

Arcana Records

Product Type:

COMPACT DISCS

UPC:

3760195736050

Genre:

Classical Artists

Release Date:

2026-10-23

Number of Discs:

1

What happens when music becomes an act of rebellion? Step into Winchester Cathedral on a February morning in 964, a day which sparked a silent coup and forever changed the sound of worship.Nexus Winchester invites you into this charged moment, when canons - men of wicked and scandalous behaviour, not celebrating mass, marrying illicitly, living in gluttony and drunkenness, even trying to poison the bishop - were expelled, monks took their place, and some of the earliest polyphony in Western music arose from the conflict. Drawn from the Winchester Troper, these sumptuous works reveal a virtuosity and refinement that feel startlingly modern. Two voices entwine in the earliest known polyphonic masterpieces, fiddle and flutes drift between ritual and imagination, stories by the poet Wulfstan surface like whispered testimony, while voices and instruments open uncanny sonic spaces.A thousand years later, Ensemble Dialogos revives this repertoire not as a relic, but as living drama - where power, silence and song collide, and the past speaks urgently to the present.

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