Canticum Novum

“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