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Jordi Savall is a legend of early music, and in this concert he joins forces with the young musicians of the Karajan-Akademie. Together, they unleash elemental musical forces – with Water Music: Ebb and Flow by Georg Philipp Telemann and Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks, a work that uniquely combines unrestrained splendour with elegance. The concert opens with the orchestral suite from the opera Alceste, in which Jean-Baptiste Lully explores the full expressive range of the Baroque – from martial fanfares to graceful dances.
Artists
Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Jordi Savall conductor
Programme
Jean-Baptiste Lully
Alceste ou Le triomphe d’Alcide, orchestral suite
Georg Philipp Telemann
Overture Suite in C major, TWV 55:C3 “Water Music: Hamburg Ebb and Flow”
George Frideric Handel
Music for the Royal Fireworks, HWV 351
Additional information
Duration ca. 2 hours and 15 minutes
Chamber Music Hall
17 to 40 €
Introduction
19:15
Biography
Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall is a visionary and a revolutionary, both in the field of historical performance practice and as a pioneer of the viola da gamba. As the leader of the ensembles Hespèrion XXI, Le Concert des Nations and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, which he founded together with the soprano Montserrat Figueras, Savall has rediscovered forgotten sounds from many centuries: works of the Renaissance and the French Baroque, as well as music from Galicia, Algeria and Italy, from the Sephardic Jewish tradition and the Arab cultural world.
Born in 1941 in northern Catalonia, Savall has reached a broad audience of all ages through his participation in Tous les matins du monde (for which the soundtrack received the César Award for Best Film Music), through his intensive concert activity and through more than 230 recordings which he has released to date. On his own label Alia Vox, he explores the stories of Charles V or the conquest of Constantinople, about Don Quixote, Joan of Arc, Christopher Columbus or the history of slavery. Beyond this, Jordi Savall has expanded his repertoire to include Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert. Since 2011, Jordi Savall and his ensembles have frequently been invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to perform at the Philharmonie. This season sees two debuts: his first appearances as conductor of the Berliner Philharmoniker in concerts in December 2025, and as conductor of the Karajan Academy in today’s concert.
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