La sombra de un gigante: Jordi Savall y la viola da gamba

By David Santana Cañas, 17 January 2019

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Reviewed at Auditorio Nacional de Música, Madrid on 16 January 2019

Hume, Musicall Humors

Hume, A Souldiers Resolution

Hume, Captain Hume's Pavan

Hume, A Souldiers Resolution

Hume, The First Part of Ayres: My Hope is Decayed

Hume, Love's Farewell

Hume, Harke, harke

Hume, Death

Hume, Life

Hume, A Souldiers Resolution

Hume, Pavin

Hume, Good Againe, for viola da gamba

Ferrabosco II, Ayres and Lessons for the lyra viol (Coranto)

Ford, Why Not Here

Playford, La Cloche

Anonymous, The Lancashire Pipes

Jordi Savall, Viola da Gamba

Savall conducts Beethoven and Haydn at the Elbphilharmonie

Mengguang Huang, 3rd April

Beethoven's Christus am Ölberge is paired with Haydn's Die sieben letzten Worte, a journey from agony to transcendence in which the agony proves the more honest companion.

***11

In Berlin, Jordi Savall stars in a Mozart double-bill

Elena Luporini, 16th March

The Catalan conductor and his Concert des Nations bring an all-Mozart programme to the Berlin Philharmonie, with the help of the basset clarinet.

****1

Savall and Hespèrion XXI celebrate 50 years with effortless style

Nick Boston, 18th December

Rich sounding viols, lively percussion and spicy theorbo and guitar in eclectic consort music from Jordi Savall and Hesperian XXI in their 50th year.

*****

Ballet du Capitole’s double bill: a glorious musical feast

Jonathan Gray, 24th October

The conducting of Jordi Savall thrills during the Ballet du Capitole's double bill of ballets by Gluck.

****1

Le Concert des Nations: Ravel for the ages at Saint-Jean-de-Luz

Roy Westbrook, 3rd September

Jordi Savall explores the music of Maurice Ravel within the context of the French Baroque and beyond.

****1

A garden of musical delights: La clemenza di Tito at the Mozartwoche

Orsolya Gyárfás, 25th January

While the semi-staging falters, Hanna-Elisabeth Müller and Magdalena Kožená prove a thrilling pair in Mozart's final opera seria.

***11

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David Santana Cañas

David Santana (Bilbao, 1996) comienza sus estudios de música en la especialidad de fagot en el Conservatorio Juan Crisóstomo de Arriaga de Bilbao. En 2014 se traslada a Madrid, donde cursa el grado en Musicología en la Universidad Complutense de Madrid y continúa y finaliza sus estudios musicales de fagot en el Conservatorio Adolfo Salazar de Madrid. Actualmente se encuentra ampliando su formación con la realización del Máster de Investigación de Música Española e Hispanoamericana en la UCM.