JORDI SAVALL

Jordi Savall is a Catalan viol player, conductor, and early-music specialist known for reviving Renaissance, Baroque, and Mediterranean repertoires. His work with Hespèrion XX, Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, and Le Concert des Nations joined scholarship with a direct, singing instrumental style. Savall’s recordings often place European court music beside Sephardic, Ottoman, Balkan, and Iberian traditions.

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