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Listening now: "Sallallahu"

From Byzantium to Andalusia
(Der fremde Blick - Lo sguardo straniero)
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