Canticum Novum

Music and shadow theater come together for an astonishing journey between the 13th century and today. Under the reign of Alfonso X the Sage, Spain experienced an era of exceptional intellectual vitality, made possible by the meeting of the greatest Arab, Jewish and Christian minds around a king as passionate about astronomy as music.

Let's re-live this golden age through the story of the young Jewish calligrapher Hayim, who, at the age of ten, discovers a very strange connection between his beautiful Christian neighbor Elizabeth and his friend Quassem, son of one of the best Arab musicians of the court. Together, they immerse us in the heart of the alleys of Toledo, in a world of tolerance where was conceived this unique music at the crossroads. Here is a great opportunity to wonder about the transmission, the memory and the discovery of the other, by sharing the modernity of this repertoire which fits more than ever in the stakes of our time.

Distribution 
Emmanuel Bardon, voice
Aroussiak Guévorguian, kanun
Valérie Dulac, vièle & lyre d'archet
or
Emmanuelle Guigues, vièle & kamensheh
Gwénael Bihan, flûtes
Henri-Charles Caget, percussions

Gilles Granouillet & Annick Picchio, writing
Paolo del Gaudio, shadow theater
Emmanuel Bardon et Henri-Charles Caget, musical conception
Alexandre Heyraud, scenography
Remy Fontferrier, light creation

Program
Proque trobar– Prologo – Alfonso X el Sabio (Espagne)
Sola Fusti – Cantiga 90 – Cantiga de Santa Maria – Alfonso X el Sabio
Saltarello – Cantiga 77/119 – Alfonso X el Sabio (Espagne)
Las Estrellas de los cielos – Romance Séfarade (Alexandrie)
Rosa das Rosas – Cantiga 10 – Alfonso X el Sabio (Espagne)
Danza del viento – Tradition musulmane
El Rey de Francia – Romance Séfarade – (Smirne)
Hermoza muchachica – Romance Séfarade (Turquie)
A Virgen gloriosa – Cantiga 42 – Alfonso X el Sabio (Espagne)
Dized aï trobadores – Cantiga 260 – Alfonso X el Sabio
Pero que saja a gente – Cantiga 181 – Alfonso X el Sabio (Espagne)
Paxarico – Romance Séfarade (Turquie)
Por que Llorax – Romance Séfarade (Sarajevo)
De Santa Maria sinal – Cantiga 123 – Alfonso X el Sabio
Ir me quiero – Romance Séfarade (Jerusalem)
Muito faz gran ero – Cantiga 209 – Alfonso X el Sabio (Espagne)
Por alli paso un cavallero – Romance Séfarade (Turquie)
Santa Maria, strella do dia – Cantiga 100 – Alfonso X el Sabio (Espagne)
Des oge maïs – Cantiga 1 – Alfonso X el Sabio (Espagne)
De la faja saliras – Romance séfarade (Sofia)
Nas Mentes – Cantiga 29 – Alfonso X el Sabio (Espagne)
Miragres fremosos – Cantiga 37 – Alfonso X el Sabio (Espagne)