SACD, Alia Vox (label)
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Le Concert Spirituel
At the time of Louis XV
Jordi Savall (bass viola da gamba & direction)
Le Concert des Nations
Savall reaches out to explore the expressive extremes. Corelli's textures are dense and complex, three solo strings set against, here, ten more strings, playing immaculately. SACD helps greatly... — More…
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El Nuevo Mundo
Folias Criollas
Montserrat Figueras
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI & Tembembe Ensamble Continuo, Jordi Savall
the performances have a dash and abandon that are genuinely convincing...The sense of occasion and spontaneity of a live recording is conveyed without artifice. — More…
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a live recording of an excellent programme with the theme of musical ‘tone painting'...I enjoyed the discs very much. — More…
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Isabel I, Queen of Castile
Music from the time of Isabelle la Catholique, the first great queen of the Renaissance (1451-1504).
Montserrat Figueras (soprano)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall
This is a thrilling recording that captures the spirit of the 15th century of Spain's Queen Isabel I. Recorded in sound of amazing immediacy. — More…
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2005, Editor's Choice
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The virtuoso violistes of Hespèrion XX underscore the stark melancholy of Purcell's fantasias in these intense, poetic readings from 1994. — More…
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