
This ensemble plays medieval Sicilian music. Al Qantarah is the name of a river in eastern Sicily and means "bridge" in Arabic. Sicily has long been a bridge to distant civilisations and since early times its culture has been shaped by the concurrent presence of Hellenic, Arabic and lastly, Norman influences. Al Qantarah’s music evokes the sounds of that multiethnic island in sacred, lay and secular works, as they play on replicas of traditional medieval instruments of the Sicilian, Arabic and Persian traditions
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Benedicamus domino
Assolo di marranzanu
Congaudentes jubilemus
Natali regis glorie
Anni novi circulus
Sugnu vinutu di luntana via
Richiami
In hoc anni circulo
A la viddanisca
Canto di Carnevale / Tammuriddara / Assummata di lu corpu di la tunnara / Navaii
Dolce lo mio drudo
Laudes Regiae
Montedoro
Dei patris unice
Omnis mundus iocundetur
Vicariota
Popule men
Surat Mariam
Eia fratres
Natus est
Crucifixum in carne
Orientis partibus, Balletu
Parandoush / Chiovu 'Abballati'
Vitti passari 'na cavallaria
Ave virgo singularis
Stabat mater
Resonet intonet
01 - Surat Mariam - 1 parte
02 - Trad. Canto di Carnevale - Tammuriddara - Assummata di lu corpu di la tunnara - Navaii
Eia fratres personemus
Exultantes et letantes
04 - Peire Cardinal, Giacomo da Lentini - Ben m'e venuto
08 - Anon., XV sec - Dolce lo mio drudo
10 - Anon., XII sec - Exultantes et letantes - Trad., Maletto - Ballettu
Dicimus ecclesiam
Novus annus
Canto di Carnevale/Tammuriddara/Assummata di lu corpu di la tunnara/Navaii
Ben m'e venuto
03 - Anon., XII sec - Congaudentes jubilemus
Virgo dei genitrix
14 - Trad. Montedoro - Montedoro
Passioni di N.s.
Surat Mariam - 1 parte
06 - Trad. Palermo - A la viddanisca
09 - Trad. Trapani - Vicariota
Anon., XII sec - Natali regis glorie
Anon., XV sec - Dolce lo mio drudo
Trad. Trapani - Vicariota
07 - Anon., XII sec - Natali regis glorie
18 - Anon., XII sec - Eia fratres
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