Musicians - Janas Ensemble

The project Hermosuras (Beauties, translated from the Spanish and the Sardinian languages) was born from the title of a successful CD by the Janas Ensemble, directed by Paola Erdas. Hermosuras is now a renewed group of ancient music with whom the harpsichordist made her debut in Lyon on December 15th, 2005, under the aegis of the Italian Cultural Institute.

The idea originates from the requirement to face a sixteenth and seventeenth century repertoire with a viewpoint centred on the historical deepening, in the widest sense of the term, in an aesthetics that never loses of sight the quest for the absolute beauty of the sound, a subject Paola Erdas has always cared very much about.

A framing that goes from the Janas, the mythological Sardinian fairies, to a wider horizon, a far-reaching one, sweeping from Italy to France and Spain to the rest of Europe.

Paola avails herself of many collaborators, among them : Lorenzo Cavasanti and Dorothee Oberlinger (among the best recorder players of their generation), the cellist Jorge Alberto Guerrero, the soprano Lia Serafini, the theatre and historical dance specialist Deda Cristina Colonna, Antonio Fantinuoli, Marco Muzzati, Maurizio Less, Fabio Accurso.