UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity includes Albanian folk iso-polyphony – a traditional form of vocal music that’s especially cultivated in the south of the country and deserves our attention. Performed by the Albanian Iso-Polyphonic Choir, it features polyphonic singing in Albanian against a background sung as a drone. It can therefore be compared to the traditional songs of the Mediterranean region, the power of which has already been demonstrated at the a cappella Festival Leipzig in the past. It’s therefore high time to explore this corner of both south-east Europe and the world of song in Leipzig!
* Concessions are available for children, full-time students, apprentices, trainees, the unemployed, volunteers in the Federal Volunteer Service, people with severe disabilities, and Leipzig Pass holders (proof required). Errors and omissions excepted. The concert on 5 June 2025 in the Great Hall of the Gewandhaus is subject to the Gewandhaus’s concessions policy.
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