Like the soon-to-open Renaissance galleries it was conceived to celebrate, Wednesday's program by Jordi Savall and his Hesperion XXI at the Cleveland Museum of Art was a trove of delicate, detailed ...

A few centuries later, Dimitrie Cantemir could have been a world music pioneer. As it was, born in 1673, he had to settle for being Prince of Moldavia. But while in Istanbul, as diplomat-cum-hostage, ...

Over 50 years ago, Jordi Savall put aside his cello to start learning a new instrument: the viola da gamba. "Everyone thought I was mad", he says. But if the phenomenal success of Hespèrion XX (and ...

Music Worcester will present early music icon Jordi Savall in a concert titled A World of Emotions: Musical discoveries from the old and the new world (1100-1780) at Mechanics Hall on April 11. Savall ...

The Community Arts Music Association is bringing the extraordinary old music ensemble Hespèrion XXI back to the Lobero Theatre — at 8 p.m. Thursday — for what surely will be a triumphant return. The ...

The paramount gamba player and his regular colleagues—the soprano Montserrat Figueras, Hespèrion XXI, and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, along with some new collaborators, the musicians of Mexico’s ...

Centuries of trade and conflict between the Christian and Arab-Islamic worlds brought textiles, spices and bowed stringed instruments to Europe. No one knows precisely when the violin's middle-eastern ...

When Savall (pictured below by David Ignaszewski) walked on with the other members of Hespèrion XXI, he was leaning on a crutch, but the moment he started playing his treble viol he seemed physically ...

It is 25 years since the foundation of the York early music festival - during which time period instruments have moved from the margins to the mainstream, and, in the words of festival director Delma ...

The music heard Friday night at the Early Music Guild’s concert at Town Hall Seattle, from Hispanic composers of the Old World and the New, covered a wide time span. It stretched from 1510, when Diego ...

This latest of Jordi Savall's multi-lingual CD-book projects focuses not on a single historical figure or period, but on the notion of peace, transmitted through the music of wide-ranging cultures and ...

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