Dialogos

On February 19, 964, the Canons of Winchester Cathedral were expelled by Bishop Aethelwold and replaced by monks from Abingdon because they were “perverse, scandalous and lost in drunkenness” — at least according to Wulfstan, an acerbic witness and poet of his time. The monks take possession of the choir under the shouts, the songs and the tumult. A thousand years later, around the sumptuous polyphonies of the Troparia in Winchester, four musicians in turn stand on the steps of an imaginary choir to revive this clash between two worlds: insiders against outsiders and the past against the present.