“This ancient music reminds us that the body and the soul are bound to each other. (…) While making history vivid, it reminds us that it is our differences that create beauty. (…) This music offers itself to whoever wants to discover it, with its inventiveness and its audacity. (…) Paz, Salam & Shalom is so freshening. It is a lesson of harmony that comes from the past.” adapted from Gilles Granouillet.
Here is a journey out of time, which starts in the XIIIth century. In a territory where the Arab, Sephardic and Spanish communities live together, trying to find harmony in spite their differences. It is music that unites them and opens them to each other’s cultures. Its result is still vivid after 800 years of acceptance, with its message of respect and tolerance.
Distribution
Barbara Kusa, Yves Bergé, Emmanuel Bardon, voice
Valérie Dulac, vièle & lire d’archet
Emmanuelle Guigues, vièle & kamansheh
Aroussiak Guevorguian, kanun
Gwénaël Bihan, flûte à bec
Philippe Roche, oud
Henri-Charles Caget, Ismaël Mesbahi, percussions
Program
Las Estrellas de los cielos – Instrumental Séfarade (Alexandrie)
Por allí paso un cavallero – Séfarade (Turquie)
Santa Maria – Cantiga 100 – Alfonso X el Sabio
Danza ritual – Instrumental Algérie
Ir me quiero – Séfarade (Jérusalem)
A Virgen – Cantiga 223 – Alfonso X el Sabio
Des oge mais – Cantiga 1 – Alfonso X el Sabio
El Rey de Francia – Séfarade (Esmirna)
Ductia – Cantiga 123 – Alfonso X el Sabio
Noches Buenas – Séfarade (Jerusalem)
Todolos Santos – Cantiga 15 – Alfonso X el Sabio
Muito faz gran ero – Cantiga 209 - Alfonso X el Sabio
Un tissage extrêmement bien conçu de pièces instrumentales et vocales, parfois drôles, voire impertinentes, parfois enivrantes par leur virtuosité, parfois très émouvantes aussi [...] Seule ou en duo avec Emmanuel Bardon, soutenue par une équipe d’instrumentistes brillantissimes, elle (Barbara Kusa) a su en quelques secondes captiver le public venu en nombre dans l’église d’Asquins, à quelques kilomètres de Vézelay.
Emmanuel Bardon direction Barbara Kusa, Emmanuel Bardon, Yves Bergé voices Valérie Dulac fiddle & lyra bow Emmanuelle Guigues fiddle & kamancheh Gwenaël Bihan recorders Philippe Roche oud Remi Cortial oud & bandolim Aroussiak Guevorguian kanun Henri-Charles Caget, Ismaïl Mesbahi percussions
Ambronay, 2012
Paz, Salam & Shalom journeys music at the crossroads of the Middle Ages, intersecting Jewish, Christian and Islamic influences. Touching the heartbeat, the lost harmony, of a constantly evolving humanity, Emmanuel Bardon and Canticum Novum conjure a revitalising experience, the 'perfect union between earth and heaven'.
Like a tree whose many roots are rooted in different fertile soils and draw their energy from them, Canticum Novum has continued to grow and intensify over the years, opening itself up to new human and musical adventures. In this anniversary programme, produced to mark the ensemble's 25th anniversary, Canticum Novum celebrates the notions of rootedness, generational transmission and shared identities, and pays tribute to the bonds forged and the deep attachments created over these 25 years.
Join them on Thursday December 19th at 8pm at the Théâtre Copeau at the Saint-Étienne Opera (FR).
