Paz, Salam & Shalom explores music at the crossroads of the Middle Ages, highlighting the various Jewish, Christian and Islamic influences in Western classical music. Emmanuel Bardon leads Canticum Novum in an album that mixes Sephardic songs, music from the Muslim tradition and Alfonso X el Sabio s famous Cantigas de Santa Maria in a program that focuses on the subject of peace as seen from several perspectives. The blend of instruments, melodies and timbres born in this period soon became an integral part of the classical tradition.