FRANCOISE ATLAN & L’ENSEMBLE EN CHORDAIS

Françoise Atlan’s new project, the French reference of Sephardic and Jewish-Arab repertoire for 25 years, encounters the Judeo-Spanish songs of the fifteenth century former Ottoman Empire, with the precious Chordais ensemble, brilliant Greek specialist of Byzantine music, Oriental and scholarly. Soothed by a sweet nostalgia and infinite refinement, wavy melodies slide on the chants of exile, wedding and romance inspired by Jewish refugee communities in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Balkans after their expulsion from Spain in 1492. A poignant and sensitive musicological work, of an ecstatic beauty…