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 **** |
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. |
HENRICUS ISAAC
Henricus Isaac: In the Time of Lorenzo de'Medici and Maximilian I (1450-1519) Hesperion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 20/May/2017 ] This album is not only an opportunity to discover the music of Henricus Isaac under the inspired direction of Jordi Savall, it is also a portrait of an era during which the Hundred Years War ended, the Medici family reached its peak, the idea of... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Hispania and Japan: Dialogues (special Japanese folding screen edition) Hesperion XXI / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] Following the catastrophes in Japan, Jordi Savall decided to release this special tribute album in which the most significant pieces of the dialogue between Spain and Japan are gathered. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Pro Pacem: Texts, Art & Music for Peace [CD with large book] Hesperion XXI / La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall with Monterrat Figueras [ Alia Vox SACD / CD/Book - released 20/Dec/2012 ] An ambitious programme flows, from cantorial invocations and Gregorian chant, to motets by Binchois, Josquin, Guerrero and Pärt, stretching across 19 centuries of conflict. The common cause is peace, as expressed in song, painting and essay." Indep.. |
HEINRICH IGNAZ FRANZ von BIBER
Biber: Baroque Splendor: Missa Salisburgensis Hesperion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 6/Nov/2015 ] CD plus comprehensive book. The 'Missa Salisburgensis à 53 voci' (in comparison, 'Spem in alium' was written by Thomas Tallis for «only» 40 voices) is perhaps the largest-scale piece of extant sacred Baroque music, an archetypical work of the... |
TRADITIONAL
Balkan Spirit Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI [ Alia Vox / Hybrid SACD - released 3/Jun/2013 ] Following the success of Spirit of Armenia, Balkan Spirit enables us to discover another area of great musical tradition and intercultural dialogue: the Balkans. |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ministriles reales Hesparion XX / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Mar/2009 ] This beautiful set gathers for the first time Spanish and French instrumental dances from the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries scattered as 'interludes' in many Astrée and Alia Vox existing releases. It is a definitive overview of this repertoire and... |
ALBERTI / PARSONS / STROGERS / TAVERNER / WHITE / etc
Elizabethan Consort Music 1558-1603 Hesparion XX - Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 25/Jan/2001 ] The first volume in Savall's new Elizabethan Consort series |
JOHN DOWLAND
Dowland: Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares Hespèrion XX, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / CD/Book - released 15/Dec/2013 ] "The players revel in the cult of melancholy with which Dowland, the "English Orpheus" of the Elizabethan age, is so deeply associated...Full of grief-laden dissonance, the music hardly raises a smile but the brilliance of Hespèrion XX's playing brin |