JORDI SAVALL

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Poetry

Lamento de la Ninfa: Monteverdi's song of love, fire and ice

Lamento de la Ninfa is one of the most famous vocal pieces of Claudio Monteverdi, a leading Italian composer whose work...
FLUTE

The early collaboration of flute and viol in the court of Versailles

In one of his marvelous court paintings, André Bouys depicts four prominent composers working on a composition for... 5 comments
VIOL

Bach and Abel: a collaboration that lived in two generations of composers

The prominent German composer and multi-instrumentalist Carl Friedrich Abel was born into an extraordinary musical... 1 comment
ORCHESTRA

The vital source of Lutheran music by Andreas Hammerschmidt

Andreas Hammerschmidt was a German composer and organist of Bohemian birth whose works played an important part in the...
ORCHESTRA

The four elements of nature expressed in musical form by Jean-Féry Rebel

French composer Jean-Féry Rebel was born in 1666 to a distinguished musical family. His father and uncle were French...
Choir

The boundless Flemish heritage of Heinrich Isaac

Heinrich Isaac (1450—1517) was a versatile and prolific Flemish composer of both secular and church music. He was a...
LUTE

Neapolitan lutier died in terrible plague that destroyed the kingdom

The worst disaster to strike the kingdom and city of Naples in the 1600s was the plague of 1656. The outbreak of the...
Violin

150 composers contributed to La Folia through the centuries

La Folia is one of the most revered melodies in music history. Originating as a late fifteenth-century Portuguese dance...
VIOL

Exceptional sensibility of consort music from the traveling maestro of the Stuart era

John Jenkins (1592–1678), lutenist and string player, was the most eminent composer of the Stuart and Commonwealth eras...
VIOL

Authentic recreation of Alfonso X El Sabio's medieval works

Alfonso X el Sabio, byname Alfonso the Wise, or the Learned (1221-1284) was the king of Castile and Leon. Along with his...