Ambitious even by Jordi Savall's standards, Isabel I: Reina de Castilla (Isabella I: Queen of Spain) is a single disc that attempts nothing less than a musical portrait of Spain during Isabella's rule. The queen is known to Americans principally as the monarch who dispatched Columbus to sail the ocean blue, but several of her other actions (and ...
The booklet notes for this album are quite complex, and their English translation has various problems. One is that the "flutes" referred to throughout are commonly called recorders in English. The music, however, is capable of standing on its own. The program brings together two related repertoires that are often performed separately (when they ...
For fans of the pomp and majesty of royalty, here's a collection of music for Isabel I, the Queen of Castilla (1454 -- 1504). Conceived, compiled, and conducted by Jordi Savall and performed by La Capella Reial de Catalunya with Hesperion XXI, the music is an impressive mixture of hymns and marches, songs and dances, strength and sensitivity. ...
The words sumptuous and ambitious both apply to this release by soprano Montserrat Figueras, accompanied by musicians from the orbit of early music miracle-maker Jordi Savall. Consider the hardbound, 170-page booklet, with no fewer than 44 reproductions of medieval Iberian artwork and music manuscript, many in full color. It's true that the 170 ...
This disc of Iberian and Latin American Renaissance music is a reissue cleverly disguised as a new release. It compiles music from several recordings by Catalonian visionary Jordi Savall, his luminous-voiced collaborator Montserrat Figueras, and his Hesperion XXI and Capella Reial de Catalunya ensembles, dressing them up with a new set of rather ...
Instead of focusing on a single work or repertory, Jordi Savall, together with his wife Montserrat Figueras and their children Arianna and Ferran Savall, here offers what he terms "a highly personal selection of the music that has moved us by its tenderness and beauty, as well as its ability to promote dialogue and harmony." Thus we have melodies ...
Jordi Savall, performer, researcher, and promoter of early music, has become known for beautifully produced thematic collections organized around topics as diverse as the worlds of Miguel Cervantes, Christopher Columbus, and Caravaggio, performed by his ensembles Hespèrion XX (and XXI), and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, and recorded on his own ...
Harmonie Universelle II is the second of what seems to be an ongoing series of compilations issued by Alia Vox, the label founded by Catalan gambist Jordi Savall and singer Montserrat Figueras. It is labeled "Portrait Alia Vox 2001-2004," but one might even be permitted to speak of greatest hits: the label's sales are approaching the figure of one ...
No matter what the musical selection, any disc featuring Jordi Savall is almost certainly self-recommending, if you like the repertoire. And so it is with this 2007 release, Les Grandes Eaux Musicales de Versailles (The Splendid Musical Fountains of Versailles), with Savall leading Le Concert des Nations, his handpicked Baroque chamber orchestra, ...
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