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Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans
Marianne Beate Kielland (Judith), Rachel Redmond (Vagaus), Marina de Liso (Holopherne), Lucía Martín-Cartón (Abra), Kristin Mulders (Ozias)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall eats this kind of thing for breakfast and marshals his forces with military efficiency – except the performance is looser and more spontaneous than that sounds, and riveting from... — More…
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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The Routes of Slavery 1444-1888
RecommendedAfrica, Portugal, Spain & Latin America
Kassé Mady Diabaté & Violet Diallo (Mali) & Jordi Savall (viola da gamba and Artistic director)
Hespèrion XXI - La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Tembembe Ensamble Continuo
Savall’s brew is so rich that singling out individual performances is almost invidious, but tracks I love include songs from Brazil and Mexico sung by Maria Juliana Linhares and Ada Coronel,... — More…
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Grammy Awards, 60th Awards (2017), Nominee - Classical Compendium
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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... — More…
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Monteverdi: Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
Montserrat Figueras, Maria Cristina Kiehr, Livio Picotti, Paolo Costa, Guy de Mey, Gian Paolo Fagotto, Gerd Turk, Pietro Spagnoli, Roberto Abondanza, Daniele Carnovich
La Capella Reial, Coro del Centro Musica Antica di Padova, Jordi Savall
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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,... — More…
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As ever, Savall points up the sources’ colour, vitality, expressiveness and socio-political context in an exciting, fascinating and utterly beguiling programme … The singers are superb, displaying... — More…
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The virtuoso violistes of Hespèrion XX underscore the stark melancholy of Purcell's fantasias in these intense, poetic readings from 1994. — More…
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Armenian Spirit
Georgi Minassyan, Haïg Sarikouyoumdjian, Gaguik Mouradian & Armen Badalyan
Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall
achingly plangent … the poignancy of these songs from medieval and traditional sources – recorded on early and folk instruments immediately after the untimely passing of Savall’s artistic partner,... — More…
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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... — More…
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