DINASTIA BORGIA
Dinastia Borgia: Chiesa e potere nel Rinascimento (3 SACDs, 1 DVD with large book) Montserrat Figueras, Pascal Bertin, Marc Mauillon / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 4 CD/DVD - released 20/Nov/2010 ] "One might expect that, with the Borgias, all roads would lead to Rome, but in this case most lead back to Catalonia...Savall's own presence, as both leader and principal viol player, can always be felt." Editor's Choice Gramophone Magazine, February... |
ROBERT SCHUMANN / ANTON BRUCKNER
Schumann: Symphony "Zwickauer" / Bruckner: Symphony "Nullte" Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Feb/2005 ] "With a performance even finer than that of the Bruckner, Savall gives Schumann's early symphonic writing a weight, thrust and emotional impact that's enormously involving, making it seem hardly inferior to the four symphonies that would follow." Gra |
FERRAN SAVALL
Mireu el nostre mar Ferran Savall (voice, guitar & piano) with Mario Mas (guitar) Javier Mas (bandurria) etc [ Alia Vox / CD - released 10/Nov/2008 ] When a great tradition meets world music and contemporary style. |
ERASMUS van ROTTERDAM
Erasmus van Rotterdam: In Praise of Folly La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox 3 SACD set with large book / 6 Hybrid SACD - released 20/Jan/2013 ] "This is another outstanding release from Alia Vox...The singing and playing of La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hesperion XXI display, as usual, an exemplary combination of stylistic awareness, passion and panache." Sunday Times |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Le Testament Symphonique [Symphonies 39, 40, 41] Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 21/Jun/2019 ] "The mellow-toned period woodwind are particularly beautiful, especially the combination of clarinets and flute, while horns are far more than just sustaining instruments." Gramophone . |
ANTONIO VIVALDI
Vivaldi: Le Quattro Stagioni & Concerti d'Ll Cimento Dell'armonia E Dell'invenzione Les Musiciennes Du Concert Des Nations, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / 2 CD - released 19/Jul/2024 ] For this new recording of Vivaldi's Four Seasons, Jordi Savall conducts an all-female orchestra, as Vivaldi did in his time at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice. The soloist Alfia Bakieva is a violinist of Tatar origin currently living in Salzburg,... |
CHRISTOPHORUS COLUMBUS
Christophorus Columbus - Lost Paradises (2 SACDs with large book) Monserrat Figueras / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 5/Apr/2007 ] Jordi Savall offers an unique journey through the Christian, Jewish and Muslim musical traditions in relationship with texts by or about Columbus and his time. |
TRADITIONAL
Lux Feminae (900 - 1600) [CD with 172 page comprehensive book] Montserrat Figueras (soprano) / Jordi Savall (direction) / Andrew Lawrence King (harp) [ Alia Vox SACD / SACD - released 7/May/2006 ] "Drama, passion, sorrow and joy - the magnificent Figueras is in her element...Drama, passion, sorrow and joy - the magnificent Figueras is in her element" (Editor's Choice Gramophone October 2006) |
JERUSALEM
Jerusalem: La Ville des deux Paix (2 SACDs with large book) Montserrat Figueras, Andrew Lawrence-King / Hesperion XXI / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "A bewildering voyage in time and space is buoyed up by beautiful sound." Editor's Choice - Gramophone April 2009 |
Montserrat Figueras (canto) / Hesperion XX (featuring Jordi Savall)
Entremeses del Siglo de Oro: Lope de Vega y su tiempo 1550 - 1650 [ Alia Vox / SACD - released 19/Oct/2003 ] The predominant role played by music in Spanish Golden Age theatre is one of the hallmarks of the rich theatrical tradition on the Iberian peninsula. - On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in DSD stereo sound. PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM. |
MILAN / ENZINA / MUDARRA / GABRIEL / PISADOR / VASQUEZ / etc
Don Quijote de la Mancha Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 12/Feb/2006 ] "Jordi Savall occupies a special place among musicians - and not only early music specialists. As he has proven in a superb discography that ranges from 15th-century Spain to Bach and Handel, he shifts between various musical and cultural languages... |
ANONYMOUS / VARIOUS COMPOSERS
La voix de l'emotion [The voice of emotion] [2 CDs plus 272 page book] Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Apr/2012 ] This album gathers highlights from Montserrat Figueras' career for the Astrée, DHM, EMI and Alia Vox labels. |
TRADITIONAL
Jeanne d'Arc: Batailles & Prisons [2 SACDs plus comprehensive book] Montserrat Figueras, Louise Moaty, René Zosso & Manuel Weber / La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Aug/2012 ] "ambitious and sumptuous...this presentation has been fashioned by Savall as a piece of music theatre, and as a vivid attempt to commemmorate Joan's life it is unlikely to be bettered." (BBC Music) |
LE ROYAUME OUBLIE
Le Royaume Oublie: The Albigensian Crusade (3 SACDs with large book) Montserrat Figueras, Pascal Bertin, Marc Mauillon / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 3 CD/Book - released 15/Mar/2010 ] "Savall takes ownership of the more elaborate versions of the Joan of Arc songs...and his own playing is sublime. Montserrat Figueras and the other vocal soloists and readers deliver superbly vivid performances...Altogether an impressive and deeply... |
JOSEPH HAYDN
Haydn: The Creation Yeree Suh (soprano), Tilman Lichdi (tenor), Matthias Winckhler (baritone) / Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 19/Nov/2021 ] "The orchestral side of this new recording of Haydn's oratorio "The Creation" brings many other delights, partly because Jordi Savall and his ensemble Le Concert de Nations are vigorous champions of period instruments" Times |
MARIN MARAIS
Marin Marais: 2nd Book Of Viole Pieces Jordi Savall (bass viol), Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord), Rolf Lislevand (theorbo & guitar) [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Sep/2003 ] |
ARIANNA SAVALL
Peiwoh Arianna Savall (vocal, triple harp, gothic harp, celtic harp) Petter Johansen (vocal) Ferran Savall (vocal and theorb) JavierMas (12-strings guitar) [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Nov/2009 ] "The sound is out of this world, literally, for AliaVox has captured something immediate and real which is like being in a 3D stone chamber, sometimes the bedroom of a castle, sometimes a dungeon." (Five Stars AudAud.com) |
J. S. BACH
Mass in B minor, BWV232 [2 CDs & 2 DVDs] Céline Scheen (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (alto) Pascal Bertin (alto) Makoto Sakurada (tenor) / Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 4 CD/DVD Box Set - released 10/Mar/2013 ] Believing that the chorus parts are of a complexity even greater than that of the solo parts, Jordi Savall handpicked for this recording an 'academy' of young singers destined for careers as solo professionals. |
FRANZ von BIBER
Biber: Battalia a 10; Requiem a 15 Concert des Nations, Catalan Capella Reial; Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 13/Dec/2002 ] World premiere of the Requiem at Salzburg Cathedral |
W. A. MOZART
Mozart: Eine kleine Nachtmusik / Serenata Notturna / etc Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 30/May/2008 ] "Savall sets some brisk tempos, particularly for the slow movement of Eine kleine Nachtmusik, but they're convincing. …it's vivid playing from everyone, well defined in outline and responding imaginatively to the varied character of Mozart's music." |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Les Concerts Royaux, 1722 Concert des Nations / Jordi Savall (bass viol & direction) [ Alia Vox / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Feb/2005 ] Couperin left the instrumentation of each piece up to the performing musicians. For each of these four Concerts, Jordi Savall has chosen a distinctive line-up of instruments to achieve the best expression and the utmost definition of their individual... |
FRANCOIS COUPERIN
Couperin: Les Nations, 1726 Jordi Savall (bass viol & direction), with Monica Huggett, Chiara Banchini & Ton Koopman [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] "The performances by Savall and his excellent continuo players are very fine indeed." Classical-Music.com |
FERRAN SAVALL
Impro Ferran Savall (vocal, theorb, guitar), Pedro Estevan (maraques, darbuca, tambor ganga) & Jordi Savall (viola da gamba) [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/Feb/2015 ] After his acclaimed first opus, Ferran Savall is back with a deeply personal album that recaptures moments of grace recorded during improvisation sessions from 2003 to 2011. |
JORDI SAVALL
Lachrima Caravaggio Ferran Savall (vocals) / Le Concert des Nations / Hesparion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / SACD - released 6/Jun/2007 ] This new production from Alia Vox is a novelty in more ways than one. Almost all the music has been written by Jordi Savall, including a number of compositions and improvisations based on arrangements of works by Gesualdo, Monteverdi and Trabaci. |
TRADITIONAL
Armenian Spirit Georgi Minassyan, Haïg Sarikouyoumdjian, Gaguik Mouradian & Armen Badalyan / Hespèrion XXI, Jordi SavallJordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 12/Nov/2012 ] "This is a beguiling, mesmeric sequence of instrumental music from Armenia, in which Hesperion XXI are joined by a group of that country's finest musicians...[The duduk's] beautiful, musky sound seductively reflects the predominantly nostalgic,... |
TRADITIONAL
La Sublime Porte: Voices of Istanbul Gursoy Dincer, Lior Elmaleh & Montserrat Figueras / Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] "The ensemble offers authentic recreations of Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Sephardic pieces, told in textures and timbres of oud, duduk, ney and Savall's own rebab. This is music of great subtlety, technical accomplishment and powerful emotional... |
GULLAUME DUFAY / FRANCISCO de la TORRE / JUAN del ENZINA / JOHANNES CORNAGO / etc
Isabella I, Queen of Castile: Lights and shadows at the age of Isabella the Catholic ( Hesperion X11. La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Jordi Savall, direction (with Montserrat Figueras, soprano) [ Alia Vox / CD - released 28/Oct/2004 ] Born in 1451, Isabella I was to become heir to the Spanish throne. In 1469, she married Ferdinand, the heir to the crown of Aragon, and when her brother died in 1474, Isabella was crowned queen of Castile. |
GULLAUME DUFAY / FRANCISCO de la TORRE / JUAN del ENZINA / JOHANNES CORNAGO / etc
Isabella I, Queen of Castile: Lights and shadows at the age of Isabella the Catholic Hesperion X11 / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall, direction (with Montserrat Figueras, soprano) [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Nov/2004 ] Hybrid SACD - Playable on all CD players - "Total authenticity is arguable but this music makes a programme full of verve" Gramophone Editor's Choice May 2005 |
CACCINI / MONTEVERDI / SCHEIDT / LULLY / etc
La Barcha d'Amore (1563-1685) Hesperion X11. La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Jordi Savall, direction (with Montserrat Figueras, soprano) [ Alia Vox / CD - released 10/Oct/2009 ] "…there's a surprising homogeneity of sound and style throughout - testament to Figueras and Savall's innate musicality, artistic vision and spiritual harmony in a lifetime of collaboration and discovery." BBC Music Magazine, September 2009 **** |
TRADITIONAL
The Routes of Slavery 1444-1888: Africa, Portugal, Spain & Latin America Hesperion X11. La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Jordi Savall [with Kassé Mady Diabaté & Violet Diallo (Mali)] [ Alia Vox SACD + DVD / 3 Hybrid SACD/DVD - released 20/Mar/2017 ] "It's both a timely reminder of our ignoble instinct to subjugate and a moving gesture of reconciliation." Sunday Times, 26th February 2017 |
PURCELL
Fantasias for the Viols 1680 Hesperion XX / Jordi Savall (director) [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 9/May/2008 ] Hybrid/SACD - playable on all compact disc players |
MORALES / GUERRERO / VICTORIA
Maestros del Siglo de Oro: Christobal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, Tomas Luis de Victoria Hesperion XX / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 3 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Jun/2009 ] MARBECKS STAFF PICK: REISSUE CD OF THE YEAR 2009 -- This is volume 6 of the Alia Vox Heritage series of re-issues of recordings made by the Capella Reial de Catalunya and Hesperion XX under the direction of Jordi Savall. |
Hesperion XXI (early music ensemble), Jordi Savall (viola da gamba)
Oriente Lux [ Alia Vox / 2 CD - released 21/Jul/2023 ] Over the last 15 years, Jordi Savall has been exploring the links between Western and Eastern repertoires because he regards this work as a way to develop a better mutual understanding. In this new album, Hespèrion XXI plays alongside the ensemble... |
CORELLI / PLAYFORD / VIVALDI ETC.
Altre Follie (music from 1500 - 1750) Hesperion XXI; Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Jan/2006 ] A sequel to their acclaimed disc of variations on "La Folie" this disc presents responses to the form and rhythms of the "folie" by different composers up to the mid 18th century. Like all Alia Vox productions, it comes in a beautifully presented... |
Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall
Codex Las Huelgas [ Alia Vox / CD - released 20/Jan/2023 ] After more than 100 albums, Jordi Savall is still full of surprises and does just that with this exhilarating recording of a masterpiece from the Middle Ages. Compiled in 1325 and rediscovered in 1904, the Codex Las Huelgas is the only manuscript of... |
CORELLI / MARAIS / MARTIN Y COLL / ENZINA / etc
La Folia (music from 1490-1701) Hesperion XXI; Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Apr/2003 ] "This CD easily bears exposure to the "Repeat All" button, and like all Alia Vox productions, it comes in a beautifully presented card case containing a booklet with full notes in the major European languages." (Amazon) - On Hybrid Super Audio CD... |
TRADITIONAL
Ludi Musici: The Spirit of Dance 1450 - 1650 Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Le Concert des Nations / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "Life-affirming music, exuberant yet elegant, given spirited, technically-brilliant, richly-textured realisations: five stars it is." BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 ***** |
PURCELL / ORTIZ / PACHELBEL / ROSSI / MERULA
Ostinato Hesperion Xxi / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Feb/2002 ] "An enjoyably varied compendium performed with characteristic Savallian vim and vitality." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine March 2002 |
ANTHONY HOLBORNE
The Teares of the Muses 1599 - Elizabethan Consort Music Vol. 2 Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall |
TOMAS LUIS de VICTORIA
Passion: Officium Hebdomadae Sanctae Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall, Capella Reial de Cata [ Alia Vox / 3 CD/Book - released 28/May/2021 ] Tomás Luis de Victoria's Officium Hebdomadæ Sanctæ is one of the most compelling examples of creative genius in a composer, a toweringly poignant and masterpiece on the Passion of Christ, a pure but infinitely subtle creation. |