Canticum Novum

Man declines then recreates himself
Far from evidence and ruins From building site to building site
Beneath the bark
He extracts himself from chaos
He rakes gardens
To taste the future
Its fleeting flora
To its ephemeral bunches
And the song of the morning.

- Andrée Chedid, MÉTAMORPHOSES III

Through a dialogue between music and poetry, Canticum Novum invites you, in this new cycle of creations, to open up a space for reverie, for intimate reflection on the extraordinary capacity we have to transform ourselves, to evolve, to embody, to metamorphose ourselves in contact with the world, with others, with the ineffable... and perhaps to rediscover, for a moment, a path and a common gaze towards the horizon.

Cast :

Canticum Novum
Emmanuel Bardon, conductor
Gülay Hacer Toruk & Emmanuel Bardon, vocals
Bayan Rida, oud & vocals
Ismaïl Mesbahi, percussion
Marijke Bedleem, reading

Programme :

Musical creations by Bayan Rida
Sephardic romances (Spain)
Songs by Guillaume de Machaut (14th century)
Songs from the Bayeux manuscript (16th century)
Traditional songs from Turkey, Armenia and Syria
Excerpts from poems by Andrée Chedid, Mahmoud Darwich and François Cheng

Duration: 1h10 (programme being created - duration subject to change)