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  Jordi Savall, viola da gamba
The Met called the series “Celebrating Jordi Savall,” and, amid the usual parade of famous, anonymous maestros, here, finally, was a man worth celebrating.
But in the most understated of repertory, on the most subdued of instruments and in the most self-effacing way, Jordi Savall comes close to being one.
Like many other musicians, at the age of six Jordi Savall began his musical training as a member of the boys’ choir of Igualada (Barcelona), the town where he was born, and later studied the cello at the Barcelona Conservatoire, from which he graduated in 1964.
www.aaronconcert.com /artists/savall.html   (338 words)

  
  Jordi Savall: biography and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Savall is conductor of three touring and recording Early Music (additional info and facts about Early Music) ensembles: the chamber-scale Hespèrion XXI (additional info and facts about Hespèrion XXI), as well as Le Concert des Nations, a Baroque orchestra, and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, a vocal group.
He is also a two-time Grammy nominee, who scored the 1991 Alain Corneau film, Tous les matins du monde.
As a composer, Jordi Savall has written for the following films:
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/j/jo/jordi_savall.htm   (140 words)

  
 Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall was born in Igualada (Barcelona) in 1941.
Unanimously recognised as one of today's foremost artists specialising in early music, Jordi Savall is by far one of the most versatile musical personalities of his generation.
In 1998, Savall received the Gold Medal for Fine Arts by the Spanish Ministry of Culture and the Arts and in 1999 he was made a Member of Honour of Vienna's Konzerthaus.
www.artistsmanagement.com /conductors/jordi_savall.htm   (671 words)

  
 Alex Ross: The Rest Is Noise: Jordi Savall
Savall’s first program opened with a trio of far-flung pieces: “Quantas Sabedes Amare,” a cantiga by the thirteenth-century Galician poet Martin Codax; “Nastaran,” an instrumental piece from Afghanistan in the naghma genre; and “Noumi, Noumi Yaldatii,” a Hebrew lullaby.
Appropriately enough, Savall performed two of his concerts in the Medieval Sculpture Hall, in front of the great choir screen from Valladolid Cathedral, where King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella were married, in 1469.
Savall has recaptured, as far as anyone can tell, not just the technique but also the artistic spirit of the Renaissance musicians who made the viol the center of their world.
www.therestisnoise.com /2005/04/jordi_savall.html   (1242 words)

  
 classical music - andante - jordi savall and philharmonia baroque orchestra fail to jell
Jordi Savall, the Catalan master of Baroque and Renaissance music, is a Renaissance man. Instrumentalist and conductor, scholar and cultural bridge builder, he blurs boundaries between high art and folk art, the music of East and West, the antique and the modern.
Savall is a suave, cosmopolitan presence on the podium.
Savall seemed to be scooping together and shaping the orchestra's long phrases, full of adornments, while turning the dial up and down for dynamic nuance.
www.andante.com /article/article.cfm?id=26125   (1323 words)

  
 Making Beautiful Music: An Interview with Jordi Savall By Gary S. Dalkin
Jordi Savall was born in Barcelona where he completed his early musical studies, and in which city his record company, Alia Vox, is today based.
Asking if there were plans for more Holbourne, Jordi Savall explained that it may be possible to record a programme of music for broken consort, but that over the next year he would be concentrating on two discs of music related to William Byrd.
Jordi Savall made some comparisons with a set of similar repertoire recorded in the mid-70's and now available as a 2 CD set on Virgin under the title Music From Christian and Jewish Spain 1450-1550.
www.musicweb.uk.net /performers/savall.html   (1561 words)

  
 Between the Notes: Jordi Savall - eMusic Spotlight
Jordi Savall may have undertaken years of music instruction in prestigious institutions, but his story is just as DIY as any you’re likely to come across.
Both were scarce, though — and Savall says that he owes much of his education simply to playing the instrument: “You find [the technique] in the music itself,” he says.
Free from the shackles of release schedules, Savall would be able to release as much as he wanted — and to retain creative control over the next phase of his career.
www.goodnoise.com /features/spotlight/293_200703-btn-jordi-savall.html   (711 words)

  
 Jordi Savall - musicolog.com
Jordi Savall was born in Igualada in 1941.
Savall's popularity really took off with the movie Tous les matins du monde, although he was well-known to viola da gamba enthusiasts prior to that.
Alia Vox 9805 Folias and Canarios Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall
www.musicolog.com /jordisavall.asp   (2351 words)

  
 Jordi Savall: St John's Smith Square - MusicalCriticism.com (concert review)
Savall has an extraordinary technical command of his instrument and he is a profound musician with humility.
In the last movement, 'Souldiers Resolution', Savall announced various scenes (such as March, Cattledrum call) while he was playing (or perhaps these sections were additional movements not marked in the programme) but he had no need to do so: his solo gamba sounded like a whole army with fanfares and the like.
Savall utilised all seven of his gamba strings almost all the time, regardless of whether he was playing loudly or producing magical echoes.
www.musicalcriticism.com /concerts/sjss-savall.htm   (801 words)

  
 On An Overgrown Path: Beyond borders - East-West divine orchestra
Catalan viol player Jordi Savall will need little introduction, and his musical roots are in the only European country to have been part of Islam for an extended period.
Du temps & de l’instant (Moments in time) is a Savall family jam session with Montserrat Figueras (Mrs Savall) vocals, and the multi-talented Arianna and Ferran Savall (the Savall children) singing and contributing harp and théorbe respectively.
Jordi Savall talks about early, contemporary and world music, Arvo Pärt, the lack of innovation in major record labels and more in an exclusive Overgrown Path podcast.
www.overgrownpath.com /2006/09/beyond-borders-east-west-divine.html   (578 words)

  
 Cal Performances | Music Before 1850 | Jordi Savall, viola da gamba, with Pierre Hantai, harpsichord, & Xavier Diaz, ...
Jordi Savall, viola da gamba, with Pierre Hantai, harpsichord, & Xavier Diaz, theorbo & guitar, L'Ange et le Diable (The Angel & the Devil)
At the beginning of the 18th century, the sublime French composer Marin Marais' talent was often compared to that of Antoine Forqueray, his younger contemporary, who was said to have played like a devil, while Marais played like an angel.
Returning to Berkeley, Cal Performances favorite and early music superstar Jordi Savall—"a man worth celebrating...a performer of genius," says the New Yorker—explores the work of these extraordinary masters in a concert featuring Marais' virtuoso Suite d'un goût étranger and a selection of Forqueray's intriguing and revealing Portraits musicaux.
www.calperfs.berkeley.edu /presents/season/2006/music_before_1850/savall.php   (346 words)

  
 Jordi Savall - Music - Review - New York Times
Savall has his own record label, Alia Vox, to document his adventures in (mostly) unusual corners of the early-music repertory.
Savall’s ensembles produce a luxurious sound, and in recent seasons he has brought one or more of them to New York.
Savall played with speed and precision, but also with heart: brisk as they were, the lines were gracefully shaped.
www.nytimes.com /2007/05/12/arts/music/12sava.html?ex=1336622400&en=0f936a5e368040af&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&pagewanted=print   (484 words)

  
 CAMA - Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial, Jordi Savall, "Lost Paradises" - February 14, 2008 - Program Notes
Jordi Savall viola da gamba soprano and rebab
Jordi Savall has been appointed Intercultural Ambassador as part of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008 which has as its slogan “Together in diversity,” as well as an “Artist for the Peace” in the good will Ambassador’s program of the UNESCO.
Under the direction of Jordi Savall, the group pursues a busy schedule of concerts and recordings, and it has been performing from the outset in the main early-music festivals all over the world.
www.camasb.org /savall_prognotes_0708.shtml   (6025 words)

  
 Jordi Savall at Basic Music - Online Music Guide
Jordi Savall i Bernadet (born 1941, in Igualada, Catalonia) is a Spanish viol player and composer.
Finally, in 1989 Savall created Le Concert des Nations, an orchestra that is generally dedicated to the baroque repertoire, but which sometimes also serves as an outlet for music that hails from the classical/romantic repertoire (e.g.
Jordi Savall is also a two-time Grammy nominee, who scored the 1991 Alain Corneau film, Tous les matins du monde (also awarded the César of the French film industry in 1992).
www.basicmusic.net /musicians.php?aid=5754   (309 words)

  
 Jordi Savall - A Discography
Jordi Savall (b.1941) is a viol player and conductor from Catalunya.
Montserrat Figueras, Hespèrion XXI - Jordi Savall, dir.
Figueras / Hespèrion XX - Jordi Savall, dir.
www.medieval.org /emfaq/performers/savall.htm   (2572 words)

  
 Jordi Savall
For more than 30 years he has been devoted to the rediscovery of neglected musical treasures: 30 years of research, study, and interpretation, both as gambist and musical director.
One of the most multifariously gifted musicians of his generation, he has built a his career as a concert performer, teacher, researcher, and creator of new projects, both musical and cultural, which makes him one of the principal architects of the current revaluation of historical music.
Savall plays a seven-string viola da gamba by Barak Norman (London, 1697).
www.carnegiehall.org /textSite/box_office/events/evt_10024.html   (1450 words)

  
 Jordi Savall - Music - Review - New York Times
Savall performs in New York every season, and his visits almost always include more than one concert, either on his own or with one of his three ensembles.
Savall has played in recent seasons, because Hume and his colleagues saw possibilities in the gamba that their counterparts elsewhere found less fascinating.
Savall’s hands virtuosic passages in both bowed and pizzicato form are equally vivid and brisk.
www.nytimes.com /2007/11/02/arts/music/02sava.html?ex=1351656000&en=8cd3dafcd03c57e2&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss   (627 words)

  
 Jordi Savall - Music on FoxyTunes Planet
Savall's musical formation started in the school choir of his native city (1947-55).
Afterwards, he begun his specialization in Early Music at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland (1968-70).
Planys i Llegendes / La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Jordi Savall
www.foxytunes.com /artist/jordi_savall   (272 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Jordi Savall, Dominique Fernandez: Lachrimae Caravaggio: Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI, Pierre Hamon, Luca ...
Amazon.com: Jordi Savall, Dominique Fernandez: Lachrimae Caravaggio: Jordi Savall, Hesperion XXI, Pierre Hamon, Luca Guglielmi, Le Concert des Nations, Matthias Spaeter, Riccardo Minasi, Xavier Puertas, Ferran Savall: Music
Jordi Savall (Composer), Hesperion XXI (Performer), Pierre Hamon (Performer), Luca Guglielmi (Performer), Le Concert des Nations (Orchestra), Matthias Spaeter (Performer), Riccardo Minasi (Performer), Xavier Puertas (Performer), Ferran Savall (Performer)
Marin Marais: Suitte d'un Goût Etranger [Hybrid SACD] ~ Jordi Savall
www.amazon.com /Jordi-Savall-Dominique-Fernandez-Caravaggio/dp/B000QUTSAC   (291 words)

  
 The King of Spain: The New Yorker
When the Catalan viol player Jordi Savall presented three concerts at the Metropolitan Museum earlier this month, one musical border after another seemed to melt away—borders between past and present, composition and improvisation, “popular” and “classical,” East and West.
Hendrik Hertzberg, Ryan Lizza, and Jeffrey Toobin on flip-flopping.
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www.newyorker.com /critics/music/?050502crmu_music   (1489 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Mozart: Requiem / Maurerische Trauermusik: Stephan Schreckenberger, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Jordi Savall, ...
Stephan Schreckenberger (Performer), Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Composer), Jordi Savall (Conductor), Le Concert des Nations (Performer), Montserrat Figueras (Performer), Gerd Turk (Performer)
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The smaller size of this ensemble gives an intimacy and a nuance of interpretation in this work that is unmatched.
www.amazon.com /Mozart-Maurerische-Trauermusik-Stephan-Schreckenberger/dp/B0000017PX   (308 words)

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