Etiket: Savall
[Critique] “Schubert. Transfiguration”, The Concert of Nations, Jordi Savall
It is fascinating to approach this recording after having tried to digest that of another baroque star, René Jacobs (Pentatone), exhausting, even sickening, by dint of fatuity. If one evokes…
[Critique] The quiet conviction of Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI gave the Maison symphonique de Montréal the second of their concerts in Quebec, after the Palais Montcalm in Quebec on Sunday. They will continue their…
Early music | Lessons from Jordi Savall
“Music is the real living history of humanity,” says Jordi Savall. He has been telling this story for five decades through a discography that goes back to the sources of…
Return to musical democracy for Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall returns to us, not as a conductor, but as an instrumentalist, to promote the consort of viols with his ensemble Hespèrion XXI. Fantasies, battles and dances. The Golden…
Tomás Luis de Victoria, Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall’s Beethovenian quest does not exclude him from the repertoire he once took to the heights. At Astrée, the chef had already taken an interest in Victoria through hymns…