Kyriakos Kalaitzidis / Maria Farantouri - Musical Voyages of Marco Polo

Virtuoso loud player, artistic director and founding member of en Chordais and doctor of Byzantine musicology, the ever impressive Kyriakos Kalaitzidis has gathered together a group of devoted collaborators, including the Ensemble Constantinople and the renowned Greek singer Maria Farantouri, in order to tell the musical tale of one of the defining periods of human history. The result is a sonorous evocation of Marco Polo's account of his epic voyage and the countries he traveled through. Each track journeys on into the next, the fragrant acoustics wafting US along this mellifluous musical spice route. And as the miles fly by, time and history discreetly reveal their lessons for humanity.