Tag Archives: Jordi Savall

Jordi Savall and his early music ensemble looped back to the popular music of the 16th and 17th centuries in concert, while a new album offers modern piano responses to ancient music.

A concert recording of music from countries far and wide, from Syria to Afghanistan, Israel to Greece, Morocco to Iraq, pays tribute to the victims of the war in Syria.

In France in the early 18th century, minuets, sarabandes, and gigues were written to be literally danced to, sometimes by popular professional dancers. Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations recall those days with music by Telemann and Jean-Fery Rebel.

The celebrated musician-scholar and eminence grise of the viol offers representative pieces of what can be broadly termed the "Musica Nova" movement of the 16th and 17th centuries in Italy, France, England, Germany, Spain, and Portugal. But you don't need experience with or knowledge of early music to appreciate the beauty, and the consummate expertise, of these performances.

The 'eminence grise' of Early Music led the Juilliard School's main Early Music group in an crowd-pleasing concert with readings, all in tribute to the music of the time of Shakespeare and Cervantes.

Beautiful music offering a timely reminder that differences are something to be celebrated.