Ensembles
Berliner Philharmoniker
Karajan-Akademie
Hespèrion XXI
Le Concert des Nations
Composers
Rameau · Gluck · Lully
Handel · Telemann · Ortiz
Sanz · Guerrero · Correa de Arauxo
Focus point Mozart
Requiem
Jupiter Symphony
Clarinet Concerto
Jordi Savall was almost single-handedly responsible for the modern resurgence of interest in the viola da gamba and music for viol concert. The instrumentalist and conductor is a truly remarkable figure in the field of early music and of historically informed performance practice. He has discovered countless musical treasures from the Renaissance and the Baroque and founded three famous early music ensembles, each of which has made it possible for audiences to hear early music in new ways. He is also in demand as a teacher and as a composer. This season, you can encounter Jordi Savall in all his facets, including his debut as a conductor with the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Few musicians in the field of historically informed performance practice can look back on such an impressive career as the Catalan Jordi Savall, yet it was by something of a roundabout route that he came to the viol. He began his musical studies as a boy chorister in his native Igualada, near Barcelona, before studying the cello at the city’s Conservatory. Only on completion of his studies in 1965 did he take up the viol, which he studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, where he also attended a course in historically informed performance practice and where he has taught from 1973. Since then, he has been in constant demand as a teacher. Since 2009 he has also been a guest lecturer at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York.
In the course of his career, Jordi Savall has founded Hespèrion XX (now Hespèrion XXI), La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations. With these ensembles, he has appeared all over the world, while at the same time pursuing an international career as an instrumentalist. Throughout this time it has always been his aim to rediscover forgotten works, often from his own country. His first albums were devoted for the most part to Spanish music of the fifteenth century, after which he turned his attention to works from other periods and countries. His repertoire now includes works written over a span of almost one thousand years, from the ninth to the nineteenth century. More recently, he has developed an interest in the works of Felix Mendelssohn.
In addition to his activities as a viol player, as a teacher and as the director of his various ensembles, Jordi Savall has also worked as a composer and written the soundtrack for the French historical drama Marquise directed by Véra Belmont. In 1991, he served as the musical adviser on the lavishly-designed, multi-award-winning biopic Tous les Matins du Monde about the French viol player Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe, in addition to which he recorded the soundtrack, which earned him a César Award for the best film score.
Since 2011, Jordi Savall and his ensembles have been invited by the Berliner Philharmoniker to appear at the Philharmonie on multiple occasions. This season, he will be making two additional debuts as a conductor, both with the Berliner Philharmoniker and at the Karajan Academy.
Chamber Music Hall
Baroque weekend
Hespèrion XXI:
Jordi Savall viol and direction
Xavier Díaz-Latorre guitar
Andrew Lawrence-King Barockharfe
Xavier Puertas violone
David Mayoral percussion
The Garden of the Hesperides
Works by Diego Ortiz, Gaspar Sanz, Pedro Guerrero, Francisco Correa de Arauxo and other composers
Discounted Baroque package available from 22 June.
Main Auditorium
Berliner Philharmoniker
Jordi Savall conductor
Works by
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christoph Willibald Gluck and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Naïs, Suite (compiled by Jordi Savall)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Don Juan, Ballet
Interval
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 “Jupiter”
Main Auditorium
Berliner Philharmoniker
Jordi Savall conductor
Works by
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christoph Willibald Gluck and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Naïs, Suite (compiled by Jordi Savall)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Don Juan, Ballet
Interval
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 “Jupiter”
Main Auditorium
Berliner Philharmoniker
Jordi Savall conductor
Works by
Jean-Philippe Rameau, Christoph Willibald Gluck and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Jean-Philippe Rameau
Naïs, Suite (compiled by Jordi Savall)
Christoph Willibald Gluck
Don Juan, Ballet
Interval
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Symphony No. 41 in C major, K. 551 “Jupiter”
Chamber Music Hall
Karajan-Akademie der Berliner Philharmoniker
Jordi Savall conductor
Works by
Jean-Baptiste Lully, Georg Philipp Telemann and George Frideric Handel
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
Main Auditorium
Le Concert des Nations
Jordi Savall direction
Francesco Spendolini clarinet
Capella Nacional de Catalunya
Works by
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra in A major, K. 622
Francesco Spendolini clarinet
Interval
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Requiem in D minor, K. 626 (Version from Franz Xaver Süßmayr)
Capella Nacional de Catalunya