Jordi Savall

Catalonia’s resonant Château de Cardona sometimes makes the bassline heavy, the vigorous timpanist often forgets the crucial Beethovenian difference between one f and two, and the editor clipped... — Sunday Times, 16th August 2020 More…

Savall shows an awareness not only of the music's sense of drama, but also of its nobility of expression, solemnity and imaginative use of sonority. This is as good a performance of the original... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2007, 5 out of 5 stars More…

An outstanding disc which I foolishly overlooked back in 1993, not realising Savall et al. were such fine Handelians; it sounds spectacular now, remastered from stereo to effective but not overblown... — BBC Music Magazine, September 2008, 5 out of 5 stars More…

The strings have a particularly inviting elastic, ‘gutty’ sound, free of the sparkle and sharp attack of metal-strung instruments. The mellow-toned period woodwind are particularly beautiful,... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

From the age of 25 Boccherini lived in Spain… and Spanish elements lend distinctive colours to his music. Bubbling high spirits from composer and performers alike produce a most entertaining... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

a live recording of an excellent programme with the theme of musical ‘tone painting'...I enjoyed the discs very much. — Early Music Review, 24th January 2016 More…