Jordi Savall: The Fire and the Tears of the Muses

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Image courtesy of Festival Castell Peralada.

Jordi Savall is one of the most versatile musical personalities of his generation. For more than fifty years, he has been unearthing the marvelous musical worlds abandoned to obscurity through indifference and oblivion. Dedicated to researching ancient musical works, he reads, interprets and conducts them. His activity as concert performer, teacher, researcher and creator of new musical and cultural works place him among the principal architects of the phenomenon of the rediscovery of historical music.

With Montserrat Figueras, he founded the musical groups Hespèrion XXI (1974), the Chapel Royal of Catalonia (1987) and Concert of the Nations (1989) with whom he explores and creates a universe of beauty and feeling, as he brings them to the world and to millions of lovers of music.

This year, the master of the viola da gamba presents The Fire and the Tears of the Muses, a program featuring Renaissance composers and instrumentalists from the Elizabethan period, such as Christopher Tye, William Byrd, Richard Nicholson and John Dowland. Ancient, faraway songs that will be performed by the Hespèrion XXI ensemble, an inescapable reference for understanding the evolution of music during the period spanning from the Middle Ages to the Baroque, which, together with the voices of Elionor Martínez and William Shelton and the direction of Jordi Savall, will make it possible for the public to naturally enjoy the spiritual and aesthetic delicateness of that time.

A concert in the 2024 edition of Festival Castell Peralada.

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