Browse: Alia Vox (label)

As is customary with Jordi Savall's projects, the album presents vivid theatre for the ear...The performances by La Cappella and Hespèrion are as magical as ever — BBC Music Magazine, April 2010, 5 out of 5 stars More…

With a large and varied orchestra and (optional) surround sound, Jordi Savall revels in the unmatched opulence, extravagance and scale of mid-18th century France...The music is divorced from... — BBC Music Magazine, October 2011, 5 out of 5 stars More…

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…

The effect of this sequence of variations and musical dialogues is strangely mesmerising – a shifting play of surface texture and contrapuntal depth. — Gramophone Magazine, March 2023 More…

the performances have a dash and abandon that are genuinely convincing...The sense of occasion and spontaneity of a live recording is conveyed without artifice. — Gramophone Magazine, Awards Issue 2010 More…

Savall’s view of the music feels unerringly right throughout, with tempos always judiciously chosen, and Haydn’s famous moments all vividly conveyed...Savall has assembled a fine cast of soloists,... — BBC Music Magazine, March 2022, 4 out of 5 stars (Performance) 3 out of 5 stars (Recording) More…

He understands the subtleties of Gluckian grace and studied simplicity, while Le Concert des Nations respond to the fast numbers with gutsy, incisive aplomb. — BBC Music Magazine, September 2022, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Like Ibn Battuta’s rihla, Jordi Savall’s musical journey offers a voyage through a somewhat idealised Orient, one held to be the cradle of knowledge, culture and religion in the 14th century…Such... — Gramophone Magazine, April 2019 More…