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No Baroque Weekend would be complete without Jordi Savall. The Catalan gambist and conductor – to whom the Berlin Philharmonic is dedicating a season-long tribute – is one of the most distinguished authorities on early music. With his ensemble Hespèrion XXI, he leads us into the mythical Garden of the Hesperides, where immortal maidens guard the golden apple tree – a symbol of love and fertility. Music by Diego Ortiz, Gaspar Sanz, Pedro Guerrero, Francisco Correa de Arauxo and others creates a richly atmospheric soundscape.
Artists
Hespèrion XXI:
Jordi Savall viol and direction
Xavier Díaz-Latorre guitar
Chiara Granata Barockharfe
Xavier Puertas violone
David Mayoral percussion
Programme
Folías antiguas
Anonymous (1480) • Folía “De la vida deste mundo” (Cancionero de Palacio 121)
Anonymous (1490) • Folía “Rodrigo Martines” (Cancionero de Palacio 12)
Diego Ortiz (ca. 1510–1570) • Romanesca & Passamezzo moderno
(Rom, 1553)
Catalonian and Sephardic Traditions
Anonymous (Catalonia)/Jordi Savall • Planctus
Anonymous (Sephardic)/Jordi Savall • “Hermosa muchachica”
Gaspar Sanz (1640–1710)
Jácaras & Canarios
“Instrucción de Música sobre la Guitarra Española” (Zaragoza, 1674)
Variations & Improvisations
Pedro Guerrero (ca. 1520–1560) • Moresca
Anonymous (England) • “Greensleeves to a Ground”
Anonymous/Improvisation • La Guaracha
Basque & Portuguese Traditions
Anonymous (Euskal Herria)/Jordi Savall • “Aurtxo txikia negarrez”
Anonymous (1673–1739) • Gaita (Codex Saldívar 4, Mexiko 1720)
Anonymous/Codex Trujillo del Perú (Lima, 1780)
“Tonada del Chimo”
Folías criollas “Cachua serranita”
Passagalli
Anonymous • Una cetra s’accoglie (Bibliothèque nationale de France)
Anonymous • Passagalli (Archivio Doria Phamphilj)
Glosados & Improvisations
Francisco Correa de Arauxo (1584–1654) • 3 Glosas über “Todo el mundo en general” (Alcalá de Henares, 1626)
Anonymous/Improvisation • Canarios
Antonio Valente (ca. 1520–ca. 1580)/Improvisation • “Gallarda
napolitana” (Naples, 1576) • “El Jarabe loco« (Mexiko, 1700)
Additional information
Duration ca. 1 hour and 15 minutes
Chamber Music Hall
12 to 31 €
Introduction
21:15
Remaining tickets are available by telephone via +49 30 254 88-999 or at the box office.
With pomp and circumstance
The Baroque – an age of superlatives
Golden, ornate, with magnificent façades – this is often our first impression of the Baroque. Yet behind the glittering surfaces of an era that stretched from the early 17th to the mid-18th century lies a world brimming with artistic curiosity, technical innovation, and striking contrasts.
Biography
Hespèrion XXI
In 1974, Jordi Savall and the singer Montserrat Figueras, together with bassoonist Lorenzo Alpert and lutenist Hopkinson Smith, founded Hespèrion XX, which has been known as Hespèrion XXI since the year 2000. This international period-instrument ensemble is among the finest of its kind. Fascinated by the immense richness of European music — “Hesperia” was the ancient name for the two westernmost peninsulas of Europe — and driven by a passion to revive the music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque in an authentic, historically-informed manner, Hespèrion XXI has rescued countless often-unpublished works from oblivion and contributed significantly to a renewed understanding of early music.
“Music is humanity’s first language and the only language through which we can directly connect with other people and cultures. Music never leads to misunderstandings,” says Jordi Savall. True to this philosophy, Hespèrion XXI performs a repertoire that places a strong focus on Iberian and Mediterranean traditions. The ensemble tours worldwide and has released more than 60 albums, many of which have received international awards, including a Grammy.
Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall is a visionary, a thinker and a revolutionary – one of the iconic figures of historically informed performance and a leading exponent of the viola da gamba. As the director of the period-instrument ensembles he founded together with soprano Montserrat Figueras – Hespèrion XXI, Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Reial de Catalunya – he has rediscovered forgotten sounds from many centuries: works of the Renaissance and the French Baroque, music from Galicia, Algeria and Italy, as well as that of the Sephardic Jews and the Arab world.
Born in 1941 in northern Catalonia, this exceptional musician has reached audiences of all ages through his involvement in Alain Corneau’s film Tous les matins du monde (All the Mornings of the World), for which he won the César for Best Film Music, through his extensive concert activity, and through more than 230 recordings. Through his own label AliaVox, he publishes lavishly-produced editions that tell stories of distant places and times – of Charles V, the conquest of Constantinople, Don Quixote, Joan of Arc, Christopher Columbus, or the history of slavery. In addition, Jordi Savall and his ensembles have expanded their repertoire to include works by Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.
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