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Listening now: "Venite a laudare"

From Byzantium to Andalusia
(Der fremde Blick)
Encounter of cultures

Christian, Jewish and Islamic music in the Middle Ages

Italian Laude from the "Laudario di Cortona", the music of the ottoman "Derwish-brotherhoods", "Judeo-Sephardic romances" from Spain, Arabo-Christian music from Lebanon, the "Andalusean school", spanish pilgrim songs.

A "panopticum" of three cultures that seem to be so different, the three major religions around the mediterranean.

Ensemble: min. 7 musicians