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Beethoven Revolution: Symphonies Nos. 6-9 (SACD review)
Jordi Savall, Le Concert des Nations. Alia Vox AVSA9946 (3-disc set).By John J. PuccioThe Spanish conductor, composer, and violist Jordi Savall (b. 1941) has been a leader in the fields of historically informed performances and period-instrument bands for a very long time, having formed Hesperion XX (now XXI) in 1974, La Capella Reial de Catalunya in 1987, and Le Concert des Nations in 1989. In his career he’s made over a hundred recordings (mostly for EMI, Astree, and more recently for his own label, Alia Vox) and appeared in just about every concert house everywhere in the world. While usually sticking with Baroque and early classical music, he has also branched out with music of the early Romantic Age, like these Beethoven symphonies. Here, with Symphonies Nos. 6-9, he follows his earlier set of Nos. 1-5 (2020).Unlike some HIP conductors who take such an intensely academic approach to their music making that […]
2022-01-13 09:24:16
Review: Haydn – Die Schöpfung (The Creation) – Savall
Jordi Savall leads the Concert des Nations and Capella Reial de Catalunya in Haydn's "The Creation," featuring Matthias Winckhler, Tilman Lichdi, and Yeree Suh. The post first appeared on The Classic Review.
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La Capella Reial de Catalunya play music on slave trade alongside readings of harrowing reports
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La Capella Reial de Catalunya/Hespèrion XXI/Savall (Alia Vox, CD and DVD)The Benedictine abbey of Santa Maria de Montserrat, perched high in the Catalonian mountains 30 miles west of Barcelona, has been a site of pilgrimage since medieval times. It’s best known for La Moreneta, a 12th-century romanesque statue of the madonna, but among its other treasures is the Llibre Vermell, a codex from the very end of the 14th century that is a collection of devotional texts, prayers and papal bulls as well as a “songbook” containing 10 anonymous hymns, folksongs and dances.Jordi Savall’s performance, taken from a concert with his choir and ensemble in the very resonant acoustic of Barcelona’s Santa Maria del Pi in 2013, shapes the music from the Llibre into a 70-minute sequence. The 10 numbers are punctuated by bells and interspersed with instrumental improvisations, so that as so often with Savall, it’s all undeniably atmospheric, […]
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