Ambitious even by Jordi Savall's standards, Isabel I: Reina de Castilla (Isabella I: Queen of Spain) is a single disc that attempts nothing less than a musical portrait of Spain during Isabella's rule. The queen is known to Americans principally as the monarch who dispatched Columbus to sail the ocean blue, but several of her other actions (and ...
For fans of the pomp and majesty of royalty, here's a collection of music for Isabel I, the Queen of Castilla (1454 -- 1504). Conceived, compiled, and conducted by Jordi Savall and performed by La Capella Reial de Catalunya with Hesperion XXI, the music is an impressive mixture of hymns and marches, songs and dances, strength and sensitivity. ...
This disc of Iberian and Latin American Renaissance music is a reissue cleverly disguised as a new release. It compiles music from several recordings by Catalonian visionary Jordi Savall, his luminous-voiced collaborator Montserrat Figueras, and his Hesperion XXI and Capella Reial de Catalunya ensembles, dressing them up with a new set of rather ...
Jordi Savall has created another lavishly produced and sonically gorgeous album for Alia Vox. Here the theme is the art of Caravaggio, specifically, seven of his most wrenching paintings, all on Biblical or religious themes, six of them images of death, or near-death, and five of them are violent. The program booklet includes reproductions of the ...
Christopher Simpson: The Seasons, The Monthes and Other Divisions of Time -- I is the lengthy title for a generally excellent disc devoted to Simpson by a viol consort led by Sophie Watillon for the Alpha Productions label. It includes two of Simpson's "seasons," The Winter and The Spring, the first six "monthes" of the year, and three sets of ...
Jordi Savall has created another lavishly produced and sonically gorgeous album for Alia Vox. Here the theme is the art of Caravaggio, specifically, seven of his most wrenching paintings, all on Biblical or religious themes, six of them images of death, or near-death, and five of them are violent. The program booklet includes reproductions of the ...
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