MUSICA NOTTURNA
Musica Notturna - Invocation a La Nuit Montserrat Figueras / Les Concert des Nations / Hesparion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / 2 CD - released 16/Apr/2007 ] "Jordi Savall's discs can always be relied on to widen listeners' musical horizons in the most enjoyable way possible" Daily Telegraph |
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) |
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... |
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... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Misteri d'Elx - Homenatge al: La Vespra (Sacred Drama for the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary) Montserrat Figuerras, Marlia Vargas, Arianna Savall, La Capella Reial de Catalunya. Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 15/May/2004 ] "Listed by UNESCO on its list of masterpieces of oral history, the Mystery of Elche is a powerful work with deep roots. Jordi Savall does this sort of music with a tremendous sense of idiom, and he conjures some amazing sounds from his Catalonian... |
WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART
Mozart: Requiem Rachel Redmond (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano), Mingjie Lei (tenor), Manuel Walser (bass), Le Concert Des Nations, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD/Book - released 12/May/2023 ] Tradition und Vision, young and old, show and intimacy. This year's Mozart Week in Salzburg offered the Requiem in two performances which couldn't diverge more from each other, even though they are based on the same score. First, the 81-year-old... |
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
Bella Terra Arianna Savall (harp and singer) / Pedro Estevan (bendir, palos de agua, caxixi) / Dimitris Psonis (bendir, saz, buzuki, oud) / Julio Andrade (contrab [ Alia Vox / CD - released 28/Apr/2006 ] Debut solo CD by the daughter of Jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras on which Arianna Savall performs her own musical settings of Catalan, Spanish and Arabic poems with a typically multicultural accompaniment. |
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. |