Jordi Savall News

 
Jordi Savall: “Orient-Occident: A Dialogue of Souls”
New Yorker
The renowned gambist, who seems to play with an ancient wisdom, performs on rebec and other string instruments in an intimate program at the Metropolitan Museum featuring music from medieval Spain and from around the Mediterranean, joined by Dimitri ...


 
Musical Criticism
Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music 2012
Musical Criticism
With his ensemble Le Concert des Nations – named after Couperin's unification of European styles in his innovative collection Les nations – the grand old man of baroque Jordi Savall emphasizes a variety of baroque styles within the communality of high ...


 
Vivaldi's 'Teuzzone'
New York Times
Le Concert des Nations, conducted by Jordi Savall. Naïve OP 30513; CD. CRITICS throw around the word revelatory a bit too much. But Jordi Savall's recent recording of Vivaldi's “Teuzzone” richly deserves the adjective. Like so much of his invaluable, ...


 
Met Museum Presents NY Phil's CONTACT!, Jordi Savall and Cirène, June 2012
Broadway World
Met Museum presents the New York Philharmonic's concert series CONTACT!, Jordi Savall's "Orient-Occident: A Dialogue of Souls," and New York ensemble Cirène's interpretation of a classic love story of the Middle East with music, dance and painting, ...


 
Financial Times
To marry the heart and the head
Financial Times
At the front, seated at the viola da gamba, Figueras's husband Jordi Savall waited motionless as Armenian duduks launched into an opening lament. Then, from a balcony lit by three candles, came the voice of Figueras herself – “smoky, penetrating, ...


 
Telegraph.co.uk
Le Concert Des Nations, Lufthansa Festival, review
Telegraph.co.uk
Jordi Savall, the group's aristocratically handsome director, has a messianic zeal for revealing unsuspected affinities between different musical nations; not just the nations of Europe, but out to the Middle East and beyond.


 
New York Times
Summer Festivals for Classical Music and Opera
New York Times
There's plenty to keep early-music buffs happy at this biennial festival, where concerts this summer include two programs by the remarkable gamba player Jordi Savall, as well as performances by Philharmonia Baroque and Chanticleer; (510) 642-9988, ...

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