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Jordi Savall was born in Igualada in At the age of six, he started his musical formation in the school choir of his native city (). He later completed his formation at the Barcelona Conservatory of Music (cello ).
Immediately afterwards he began his training in ancient music, collaborating with Ars Musicae and studying at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland (). In , with his wife, the soprano Montserrat Figueras, and other musicians from different countries, he created Hesperion XX. With this ensemble, he rapidly came to the forefront of the interpretation of medieval, Renaissance and baroque music, and created a new style of interpretation, characterized by great musical vitality and the same time maximum historical fidelity.
After living in Switzerland for twenty years, he returned to Barcelona to found La Capela Reial de Catalunya, an ensemble dedicated to the interpretation of vocal music prior to the year Finally, in he created the baroque and classic orchestra. Le Concert des Nations. Unanimously recognized as one of the main present day interpreters of the bass viol, during these last twenty years Jordi Savall has carried out an intense activity as a concert performer and director. Judicii signum jordi savall biography The song starts with an introduction, the melody of which differs from the rest of the song. In AMG or Wikipedia he succeeded August Wenzinger as professor of viola da gamba at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis , where he continues to give courses and master-classes. However, to Savall, his instrument is irreplaceable. Versions [ edit ].He has made more than recordings and won numerous distinctions such as the "Grand Prix de I'AcadEmie du Disque Lyrique" In , he was designated Officer of the "Ordre des Arts et des Lettres" by the French Minister of Culture. In , the Generalitat of Catalunya awarded him the Creu de Sant Jordi.
Since , he has been a teacher at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
His work in teaching, research and as a concert performer makes him one of the main figures in the process of revaluation of historical music which is happening in Europe during these years.
from Auvidis Records
JODI SAVALL, the most celebrated viola da gambist in the world and musicians from HESPERION XX and LA CAPELLA REIAL CATALUNYA make their long-awaited Australian debut.
His sound track for "Tous le matins du Monde", a film on French composer Marin Marais, starring Gérard Depardieu, brought SAVALL international recognition and sold over half a million copies worldwide. Jordi savall biography Lyrics [ edit ]. Los Angeles Times, October 26, , p. Cancel or. They favoured a style of interpretation characterised by great musical vitality and, at the same time, ultimate historical accuracy, and created a unique sound through the use of viols and other Medieval instruments such as the psaltery, wooden flutes, Moroccan drums, and the Afghan rebec a double reed ancestor of the oboe.For the Telstra Adelaide Festival 96, singer Montserrat Figueras and members of his two ensembles will perform an intoxicating concert of 17th century Spanish and Italian music. SAVALL will also present his only solo recital in Australia during the Festival in the inspiring surroundings of St Peter's Cathedral.
Jordi Savall (b) is a viol player & conductor from Catalunya.
He has been one of the major figures in Early Music since the s, and has been a major exponent of solo viola da gamba performance as well as various innovative approaches to ensemble. His repertory ranges from the medieval era to the French baroque and beyond. Jordi savall tour The song starts with an introduction, the melody of which differs from the rest of the song. Jordi Savall is among the leading instrumentalists and conductors of the European early music scene, specializing in Renaissance and Medieval music. Today, it cannot be ascertained when the Song of the Sibyl was sung to this Gregorian melody, but most likely until the 16th or 17th century. Mediterranean diet Summer solstice fire festivals in the Pyrenees Art of dry stone walling, knowledge and techniques Talavera pottery and Talavera de la Reina pottery Falconry , a living human heritage Timber rafting Knowledge, craft and skills of handmade glass production Transhumance , the seasonal droving of livestock.In the early music newsgroup, Savall is so popular, he is often referred to as God. In fact, this is something of an "in" joke there. Savall's popularity really took off with the movie Tous les matins du monde, although he was well-known to viola da gamba enthusiasts prior to that.
"I rarely discuss perfection in music. I have no qualms about this with members of Hesperion XX, this is the embodiment of musical perfection."
THE BOSTON GLOBE
Unanimously recognized as one of the most important performers of ancient music at the present time, Jordi Savall is amply one of the most multi-faceted musical personalities of his generation: viol player, conductor, and creator of an unmistakable style, his concerts, pedagogical and research activities place him among the main architects of the present process of revaluation of historical music.
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Discography
Alfonso X El Sabio: Cantigas de Santa Maria Strela do dia
La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Arriaga: Symphony in D Les Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Astrée J.S.
Bach: The Brandenburg Concertos (BWV ) Hespèrion XX / La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall
Astrée (2 CDs) J.S. Bach: The Four Overtures (BWV ) Hespèrion XX / La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall
Astrée (2 CDs) J.S. Bach: Die Kunst der Fuge (BWV ) Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée (2 CDs) J.S.
Bach: Sonatas for Flute & Harpsichord Rampal / Savall / Marion / Veyron-Lacroix
Erato J.S. Bach: Flute Sonatas Stephen Preston / Trevor Pinnock / Jordi Savall
CRD /5 (2 CDs) J.S. Bach: The Sonatas for Viola da gamba and Harpsichord BWV
Jordi Savall / Ton Koopman
Virgin Veritas Edition Michel de la Barre: Pieces pour la flute traversiere, Stephen Preston / Jordi Savall / Blandine Verlet / Hopkinson Smith
Astrée Beethoven: Symphony No.
3 Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Auvidis Fontalis Brade: Consort Music Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Cabanilles: Batalles, Tientos & Passacalles Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Alia Vox Caccini: Le Nuove Musiche Montserrat Figueras / Hopkinson Smith / Jordi Savall / Xenia Schindler / Schola Cantorum Basiliensis
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Louis de Caix d'Hervelois: Pièces de Viole Jordi Savall / Ton Koopman / Ariane Maurette / Hopkinson Smith
Astrée Bartomeu Càrceres / Anonymes XVIe siècle - Villancicos & Ensaladas Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall
Astrée Eustache du Caurroy: 23 Fantasies a 2, 3, 5 et 6 parties Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Cererols: Missa Pro Defunctis / Missa de Batalla La Capella Reial - Jordi Savall
Astrée Charpentier: Canticum ad Beatam Virginem Mariam Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Astrée Coprario: Consort Musicke Jordi Savall / Christophe Coin / Sergi Casademunt
Astrée Couperin: Les Nations () Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée (2 CDs) Couperin: Les Apothéoses (/25) Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Couperin: Pièces de Viole Jordi Savall / Ton Koopman / Arian Mauriette
Astrée Dowland: Lachrimae or Seven Teares () Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Robert Dowland: A musicall banquet () Nigel Rogers / Anthony Bailes / Jordi Savall
Emi Reflexe 30 (LP) Dumanoir / Mazuel / De la Voye Suites d'Orchestre,
Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Auvidis Fontalis Juan del Enzina: Romances & Villancicos (Salamanca )
Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Forqueray: Pièces de Viole Jordi Savall / Ton Koopman / Christophe Coin
Astrée Gabrieli / Guami: Canzoni da Sonare Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Emi Reflexe Gibbons: Fantaisies Royales Jordi Savall / Christophe Coin / Sergi Casademunt / Johannes Sonnleitner
Astrée Guerrero: Sacrae Cantiones (, ) La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Haendel: Water Music / Music for the Royal Fireworks Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Astrée Hammerschmidt: Vier Suiten aus "Erster Fleiss" Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Ars Musici Haydn: Seven Last Words of Our Savior on the Cross (orchestral version) Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Astrée Hume: Musicall Humors Jordi Savall
Astrée Hume: Poeticall musicke (/07) Figueras / Hillier / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi Jenkins: Consort Music in Six Parts Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Locke: Consort of Fower Parts Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée De Machy: Pièces de Violle () Jordi Savall
Astrée Marais: Alcione Suites des Airs à Joüer
Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Astrée Marais: Pièces à Deux Violes du 1er Livre Jordi Savall / Christophe Coin / Ton Koopman / Hopkinson Smith
Astrée Marais: Pièces de Viole du 2e Livre Jordi Savall / Anne Gallet / Hopkinson Smith
Astrée Marais: Pièces de Viole du 3e Livre () Jordi Savall / Ton Koopman / Hopkinson Smith
Astrée Marais: Pièces de Viole du 4e Livre () Jordi Savall / Ton Koopman / Hopkinson Smith
Astrée Marais: Pièces de Viole du 5e Livre () Jordi Savall / Ton Koopman / Hopkinson Smith
Astrée Vicent Martin i Soler: Una Cosa Rara Opera in 2 acts, libretto by Lorenzo da Ponte
Maria-Angela Peters, Montseerrat Figueras, Gloria Fabuel, Ernesto Palacio, Iñaki Fresán, Fernando Belaza-Leoz, Stefano Palatchi, Francesc Garrigosa / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Astrée (3 CDs) Merula: Arie e Capricci a Voce Sola Montserrat Figueras / Jean-Pierre Canihac / Ton Koopman / Andrew Lawrence-King / Rolf Lislevand / Lorenz Duftschmid / Jordi Savall
Astrée Lluís del Milà: Fantasies, Pavanes & Gallardes Jordi Savall, Andrew Lawrence-King, et al.
Astrée Monteverdi: Madrigali guerrieri et amorosi Libro Ottavo
La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall
Astrée Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine () La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Coro del Centro Musica Antiqua di Padova - Jordi Savall
Astrée (2 CDs) Morales: Officium Defunctorum / Missa Pro Defunctis La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Mozart: Requiem K / Maurerische Trauermusik k Montserrat Figueras, Claudia Schubert, Gerd Türk, Stephan Schreckenberger / Capella Reial de Catalunya / Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Astrée Mozart: Requiem Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Auvidis Fontalis Ortiz: Recercadas del Trattado de Glosas () Jordi Savall / Ton Koopman / Lorenz Duftschmid / Rolf Lislevand / Paolo Pandolfo / Andrew Lawrence-King
Astrée Purcell: The Fairy Queen / Prophetess Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Auvidis Fontalis Purcell: Fantasias for the Viols Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Rosenmüller: Sonata da Camera and Sinfonie Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Sainte-Colombe: Concerts à Deux Violes Egales Wieland Kuijken / Jordi Savall
Astrée Sainte-Colombe: Concerts à Deux Violes Egales (II) Jordi Savall / Wieland Kuijken
Astrée Samuel Scheidt: Ludi Musici (/27) Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Emi Reflexe Scheidt: Ludi Musici Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Auvidis Fontalis Schein: Banchetto musicale Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Emi Reflexe Tye: Lawdes Deo, Complete Consort Musicke Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Victoria: Cantica Beatae Virginis La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée
Original Collections
El Barroco Español Hespèrion XX
Emi Reflexe Battaglie e lamenti Schlacht und Klage Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
DG Archiv (LP) El Cancionero de la Colombina (): Música en el tiempo de Cristóbal Colón Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée El Cancionero de Medinaceli (): Música en el tiempo de Carlos V Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée El Cancionero de Palacio (): Música en la corte de los Reyes Católicos Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Canciones y Danzas de España Songs and Dances from the Time of Cervantes ()
Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Emi Reflexe El Cançoner del Duc de Calabria La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall
Astrée Cançons de la Catalunya millenària Planys & Llegendes
Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall
Astrée Cansós de Trobairitz Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Virgin Edition Cant de la Sibilla Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial - Jordi Savall
Astrée El cant de la Mallorca - València,
Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall
Alia Vox Canti amorosi Nigel Rogers / Colin Tilney / Anthony Bailes / Jordi Savall / Pere Ros
DG Archiv (LP) El Canto de la Sibila Galicia-Castilla Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall
Auvidis Fontalis Elizabethan Consort Music, Alberti / Parsons / Strogers / Taverner / White / Woodcock
Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Alia Vox Ensaladas - Flecha Heredia Arrauxo Hespèrion XX / Studio musicae Valencia - Jordi Savall
Astrée La Folia, Corelli, Marais, Martín y Coll, Ortiz, etc.
Jordi Savall et al.
Alia Vox Folias and Canarios Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Die Instrumentalvariation in der Spanischen Renaissancemusik Ricercare-Ensemble für Alte Musik, Zurich - Michel Piquet / Jordi Savall
Emi Reflexe (LP) Italienische und englische barock Musik für Blockflöte Conrad Steinmann / Jordi Savall / Hopkinson Smith
Claves (LP) Lessons for the Lyra-Violl Ferrabosco / Corkine / Anon
Jordi Savall
Astrée La Lira d'Espéria - The Medieval Fiddle Jordi Savall / Pedro Estevan
Astrée Llibre Vermell de Montserrat Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Virgin Edition Lope de Vega - Intermedios del Barroco Hispánico () Montserrat Figueras / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée Le Moyen Age Catalan De l'Art Roman à la Renaissance
Ensemble Ars Musicæ de Barcelona - Enric Gispert
Harmonia Mundi musique d'abord Music for guitar and harpsichord John Williams / Rafael Puyana / Jordi Savall
Columbia (LP) Musica barroca española Montserrat Figueras / Janneke van der Meer / Pere Ros / Jordi Savall / Ton Koopman
Philips Musicque de Ioye () Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Astrée The Punckes delight and other seventeenth century English music for viol and keyboard Trevor Pinnock / Jordi Savall
Argo ZK 37 (LP) Virtouse Verzierungskunst um Montserrat Figueras / René Jacobs / Jordi Savall / Schola Cantorum Basiliensis et al.
Deutsche Harmonia Mundi /6 (2 LPs) Viva rey Ferrando Renaissance music from the Neapolitan Court,
Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Virgin Edition Les Voix Humaines Abel / Bach / Marais / Sainte-Colombe
Jordi Savall
Alia Vox Weltliche Musik im Christlichen und Jüdischen Spanien Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Emi Reflexe (2 CDs)
Other compilations, etc
Ars Musicae Portrait of Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall et al.
Auvidis Fontalis (2 CDs) Baroque to pre-Romanticism Le Concert des Nations - Jordi Savall
Auvidis Fontalis España - Anthologie de la musique español Savall et al.
Astrée España: XVe - XXe Six Centuries of Spanish Music
Savall et al.
Astrée (7 CDs) España Antiqua Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Virgin Edition Jeanne la Pucelle Original Soundtrack
Hespèrion XX / Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall
Travelling Records Marais: Pièces de Viole, Livres I à V Jordi Savall w/ Ton Koopman, Hopkinson Smith, Christophe Coin, Anne Gallet
Astrée (5 CDs) Meslanges Royaux Jordi Savall et al.
Auvidis Fontalis (2 CDs) Montserrat Figueras - La Voix de l'émotion Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
Auvidis Fontalis Moyen âge & renaissance Hespèrion XX
Auvidis Fontalis La musique au temps des Castrats Gluck / Vivaldi / Allegri / Charpentier / Broschi
Savall et al.
Astrée La Musique au temps de Marin Marais Un Concert Baroque sous Louis XIV
Savall et al.
Valois Offertorium La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall
Auvidis Fontalis Spirit of Gambo Jordi Savall et al.
Auvidis Fontalis Tous les matins du Monde Marais - Sainte Colombe - Couperin - Lully
Coin / Figueras / Hantaï / Biondi / Savall
Valois Vingt Ans de Hespèrion XX Savall et al.
Astrée Vox Aeterna La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall
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