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A warm theatrical glow: Ensemble Masques opens “Cembalomania” at the Elbphilharmonie

By Mengguang Huang, 12 December 2025

Ensemble Masques brings French Baroque to life at the Elbphilharmonie, with Olivier Fortin’s radiant harpsichord, spirited strings and vivid interplay revealing the expressive richness of Couperin, Rameau, Forqueray and Corrette.

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Hamburg

12 Dec 2025

Ensemble Masques opens “Cembalomania” at the Elbphilharmonie

By Mengguang Huang

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Perth WA

A French Baroque Rendez-Vous in Perth

By Sandra Bowdler, 04 October 2025

Perth's HIP Company join forces with Sydney's The Marais Project for a charming evening of French Baroque music.

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Perth WA

04 Oct 2025

A French Baroque Rendez-Vous in Perth

By Sandra Bowdler

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Rosendal

A spectacular swansong for the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival

By Nick Boston, 10 August 2025

A fitting farewell for Leif Ove Andsnes' Rosendal Chamber Music Festival: imaginative programming and excellent performances in an inspiring setting.

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Rosendal

10 Aug 2025

A spectacular swansong for the Rosendal Chamber Music Festival

By Nick Boston

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Saint-Jean-de-Luz

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

By Roy Westbrook, 03 September 2024

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

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Saint-Jean-de-Luz

03 Sep 2024

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

By Roy Westbrook

London

Manchester Collective: cleverly coaxing a new audience for classical music

By Stephen Pritchard, 18 June 2019

Cool new works sit alongside Bach and the baroque

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London

18 Jun 2019

Coaxing a new audience for classical music

By Stephen Pritchard

Halle

Apollo e Dafne at the Handel Festival in Halle

By Sandra Bowdler, 04 June 2019

A performance of Handel's short masterpiece Apollo e Dafne at the Halle Handel Festival was somewhat disappointing but Fulvio Bettini impressed in the bass role.

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Halle

04 Jun 2019

Apollo e Dafne at the Handel Festival in Halle

By Sandra Bowdler

London

The Doctor Who of music: Jordi Savall whisks us across countries and centuries

By David Karlin, 12 May 2019

Hespèrion XXI dazzle us with virtuosity as they celebrate musical Europe in the heart of Westminster.

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London

12 May 2019

The Doctor Who of music: Jordi Savall at SJSS

By David Karlin

London

Brecon Baroque celebrates women composers at Kings Place

By Nahoko Gotoh, 22 February 2019

Thanks to the dedicated work of scholars and practitioners in the field, in the last decade, audiences in London have become relatively familiar with the music of female composers in the Baroque period.

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London

22 Feb 2019

Brecon Baroque celebrates women composers

By Nahoko Gotoh

Washington

Folger Consort dishes up a smorgasbord of seasonal English music

By Cristina Burack, 22 December 2018

The early music ensemble peppered its diverse program with the rollicking play A Christmas Messe. While not all arrangements worked well, expertise and emotion made for a pleasurably unique performance.

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Washington

22 Dec 2018

A smorgasbord of seasonal English music in Washington DC

By Cristina Burack

Perth WA

Jordi Savall captivates again at Perth Festival

By Sandra Bowdler, 18 February 2018

A second concert featuring Jordi Savall at the 2018 Perth Festival comprised much reduced forces - just himself and harpist Andrew Lawrence-King - but was just as rich, varied and captivating.

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Perth WA

18 Feb 2018

Jordi Savall captivates again at Perth Festival

By Sandra Bowdler

Perth WA

From the old world to the New World with Jordi Savall

By Sandra Bowdler, 17 February 2018

Jordi Savall, Hespèrian XXI and Tembembe Ensamble Continuo brought an exciting mix of instrumental playing, song and dance presenting Baroque and pre-Baroque music from Spain and the New World.

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Perth WA

17 Feb 2018

From the old world to the New World with Jordi Savall

By Sandra Bowdler

London

All the evenings of the world: Jordi Savall's film music par excellance

By Travis Mason, 19 October 2016

Jordi Savall's returns to 1991 film soundtrack and captivates a full house at St John's Smith Square.

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London

19 Oct 2016

All the evenings of the world

By Travis Mason

Bridport

Repicco and Friends highlight some Baroque rarities for Concerts in the West

By Travis Mason, 20 May 2016

An delightful hour of Baroque rarities from Repicco and Friends.

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Bridport

20 May 2016

Repicco and Friends highlight some Baroque rarities for Concerts in the West

By Travis Mason

Auckland

L'Esprit français: Les Talens Lyriques in Auckland

By Simon Holden, 15 April 2016

Les Talens Lyriques gave performances of the utmost sophistication and elegance, more than living up to their reputations of masters of this repertoire.

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Auckland

15 Apr 2016

L'Esprit français: Les Talens Lyriques in Auckland

By Simon Holden

Paris

Baroque’n’roll: Sunday morning with Jean Rondeau and the Nevermind Baroque Ensemble

By Leopold Tobisch, 01 February 2015

Jean Rondeau is now taking the French radio and concert halls by storm, quickly making a name for himself and his mastery of the harpsichord.

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Paris

01 Feb 2015

Baroque’n’roll: Sunday morning with Jean Rondeau

By Leopold Tobisch

Turin

The music of Louis XV’s court: Jordi Savall and ‘Le Concert des Nations’ play Jean-Philippe Rameau.

By Edoardo Pelligra, 16 September 2014

Jordi Savall conducts ‘Le Concert des Nations’ playing suites from Baroque’s controversial Jean-Philippe Rameau. The varied programme of the Italian music festival, Mito, is enriched with this historical hint of Baroque music.

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Turin

16 Sep 2014

Rameau: the music of Louis XV’s court

By Edoardo Pelligra

Edinburgh

War and peace in Baroque Europe: Hespèrion XXI at the Edinburgh International Festival:

By Alan Coady, 12 August 2014

Jordi Savall directs a multi-lingual, multi-cultural voyage through Europe's war-torn past.

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Edinburgh

12 Aug 2014

Hespèrion XXI explore war and peace in Baroque Europe

By Alan Coady

York

An eclectic band of medieval minstrels

By Simon Rees, 10 July 2014

Anyone running a bar or a bistro, or providing music for a christening, a post-Ramadan party or a bar mitzvah, would have to go a long way to find more fitting and spirited music than that made by Jordi Savall and his sometimes merry, sometimes melancholy, band of minstrels.

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York

10 Jul 2014

An eclectic band of medieval minstrels

By Simon Rees

Durham

Phantasm viol consort: Perilous polyphony

By Jane Shuttleworth, 10 May 2014

Fantasias for viol trio performed by members of Phantasm illustrate the inventiveness of England's best composers from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Durham

10 May 2014

Phantasm viol consort: Perilous polyphony

By Jane Shuttleworth

London

Glittering Baroque arias from Natalie Montakhab and Il Bacio

By Amanda Dean, 28 March 2014

Virtuostic and expressive playing from all performers in a challenging and enjoyable programme of Handel arias and sonatas, plus music from two contemporaries.

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London

28 Mar 2014

Glittering Baroque arias from Natalie Montakhab and Il Bacio

By Amanda Dean

Amsterdam

Los Músicos de su Alteza at the Waalse Kerk Amsterdam

By Rosemary Carlton-Willis, 14 March 2014

A pensive mood pervaded the Waalse Kerk, Amsterdam, on Friday evening as Los Músicos de su Alteza performed a programme of sacred cantatas.

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Amsterdam

14 Mar 2014

Los Músicos de su Alteza at the Waalse Kerk Amsterdam

By Rosemary Carlton-Willis

Amsterdam

Lucile Boulanger and Arnaud de Pasquale at the Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, Amsterdam

By Rosemary Carlton-Willis, 02 February 2014

At the Muziekgebouw aan 't IJ, Lucile Boulanger and Arnaud de Pasquale give performance of warmth, intimacy and subtlety for Bachdag Amsterdam.

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Amsterdam

02 Feb 2014

Lucile Boulanger and Arnaud de Pasquale in Amsterdam

By Rosemary Carlton-Willis

Madrid

Paying homage to the viol: Savall and Díaz-Latorre in Madrid

By Laura Furones, 23 November 2013

It seems unfair to describe this as a Jordi Savall concert, when in fact Xavier Díaz-Latorre, introduced as his collaborator, played at least as fundamental a role and provided some of the most memorable moments of the evening.

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Madrid

23 Nov 2013

Savall in Madrid

By Laura Furones

Cleveland

Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI explore Balkan music at Cleveland Museum of Art

By Timothy Robson, 01 November 2013

After a long career performing and recording most of the canon of western European early music, in recent years Jordi Savall has turned his attentions to the relationships of music in the Middle East, northern Africa, Spain and the Balkan countries.

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Cleveland

01 Nov 2013

Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI explore Balkan music at Cleveland Museum of Art

By Timothy Robson

London

The Celtic viol: An enchanting concert at Wigmore Hall by Jordi Savall and friends

By Julia Savage, 09 June 2013

The world-renowned viol player Jordi Savall is known for pushing the boundaries; he seems keen not to typecast the viol as a period instrument, but rather to step outside the world of Baroque music and historical performance practice and show the viol’s worth in other genres.

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London

09 Jun 2013

The Celtic viol: An enchanting concert at Wigmore Hall by Jordi Savall and friends

By Julia Savage

Bordeaux

Old worlds and new: Jordi Savall with Hespèrion XXI and Tembembe Ensamble Continuo in Bordeaux

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres, 21 May 2013

This concert marked the beginning of Jordi Savall’s week-long residency at the Auditorium de Bordeaux. The purpose of the concert was to take music from the ancient world and combine it with music from the new world. The works demonstrated the difference between the European influence and Latin American influences.

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Bordeaux

21 May 2013

Old worlds and new: Jordi Savall with Hespèrion XXI and Tembembe Ensamble Continuo in Bordeaux

By Alexandra Hamilton-Ayres

Vienna

Iberian curios at the Wiener Konzerthaus, with Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI

By Zwölftöner, 20 January 2013

An aesthetic of tradition whose past appears as its present and vice versa, that resists or smudges the shifts of meaning which occur through time, informs music-making in Austria ranging from the waltzes performed by the Vienna Philharmonic on New Year’s Day to the more idiosyncratic impulses of Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

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Vienna

20 Jan 2013

Iberian curios at the Wiener Konzerthaus, with Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI

By Zwölftöner

Verbania

Jordi Savall and Rolf Lislevand at the 51st Stresa Festival

By Travis Mason, 26 August 2012

Jordi Savall is well known to early music lovers, championing the revival of the viola da gamba with a wealth of previously unknown material and appearing regularly in the UK both as player and leader of his three ensembles.

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Verbania

26 Aug 2012

Jordi Savall and Rolf Lislevand at the 51st Stresa Festival

By Travis Mason

Chicago

Dancing Back in Time with the Newberry Consort

By Kristina Powers, 13 April 2012

“In order to play dance pieces correctly, you must learn to dance it.” Thus spoke my recorder teacher this past Friday. A tall order, considering that Baroque dance has become a specialized and rarely-performed art inaccessible to most people.

Chicago

13 Apr 2012

Dancing Back in Time with the Newberry Consort

By Kristina Powers

New York City

Rare Baroque jewels shine at Morgan Library with Boston's Tragicomedia

By Stephen Raskauskas, 27 January 2012

Tragicomedia presented a jewel-box of baroque cantatas at Gilder Lehrman Hall at the Morgan Library Museum. The elite ensemble, directed by Stephen Stubbs, includes some of America’s finest Baroque musicians, who can improvise in the style as well. Friday evening’s concert also featured soprano Shannon Mercer and bass-baritone Douglas Williams.

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New York City

27 Jan 2012

Rare Baroque jewels shine at Morgan Library with Boston's Tragicomedia

By Stephen Raskauskas

Beverley

Musicians Shed New Light on Old Masters

By Megan Beynon, 28 May 2011

Compared to the venue for this concert, the eighteenth century Baroque music in the programme is relatively modern. Beverley Minster was built between the thirteenth and fifteenth centuries. Sitting in the ancient Quire where generations of musicians have sat before, listening to the Historically Informed Performance, the audience was transported into the world of the past.

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Beverley

28 May 2011

Musicians Shed New Light on Old Masters

By Megan Beynon

London

Life and Soul at Lufthansa Baroque

By Travis Mason, 15 May 2011

The third day of the 27th Lufthansa Festival of Baroque Music's journey from Hanseatic to Adriatic stopped off in the spiritual Catholic/Protestant borders of Germany in the latter half of the 17th Century for an intimate session entitled "Life and Soul", which turned out to be a resoundingly cheerful evening, despite all the prayers and laments.

London

15 May 2011

Life and Soul at Lufthansa Baroque

By Travis Mason

London

Exploring Recitative in Baroque Opera

By Nahoko Gotoh, 06 January 2011

Entitled “Monteverdi, Opera and Beyond”, lyric tenor and baroque specialist Paul Agnew devised a 90 minute programme exploring the role of recitative in Monteverdi’s opera and its influence on seventeenth-century English and French operatic music.

London

06 Jan 2011

Exploring Recitative in Baroque Opera

By Nahoko Gotoh

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Munich

Fixstern und Orbit Buxtehude: Stylus Phantasticus bei der Residenzwoche München 2025

By Jens Klier, 12 October 2025

Das Ensemble um Friederike Heumann gelangte mit einer Auswahl der Planeten-Sonaten auf die sternlich bepfadete Bahn, die sich und Komponist ins ehrende rechte Licht rückte.

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Munich

12 Oct 2025

Fixstern Buxtehude bei der Residenzwoche München 2025

By Jens Klier

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Toulouse

Mariage tragique aux Carmélites : mourir peut attendre pour L'Orfeo

By Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 01 October 2025

Fruit d’une série de trois résidences locales et de la collaboration entre les compagnies À bout de souffle et Avant l’incendie, cette relecture de L'Orfeo de Monteverdi est indéniablement vivante.

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Toulouse

01 Oct 2025

Mariage tragique aux Carmélites : mourir peut attendre pour L'Orfeo

By Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

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Geneva

Lamenti e Sospiri : 1h10 de sensualité à l’état pur avec Leonardo García-Alarcón à La Cité Bleue

By Romain Daroles, 05 February 2025

Né du silence et de la décélération de la période inhérente au Covid-19, ce projet autour du compositeur Sigismondo d’India continue de tourner et de marquer les esprits.

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Geneva

05 Feb 2025

La sensualité à l’état pur : Lamenti e Sospiri à La Cité Bleue

By Romain Daroles

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Paris

Deux maîtrises pour Notre-Dame de Paris

By Jean-Pierre Rousseau, 04 February 2025

La réunion des maîtrises de Notre-Dame de Paris et de Radio France s'annonçait prometteuse ; malgré de très beaux moments, le concert a surtout été frustrant...

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Paris

04 Feb 2025

Deux maîtrises pour Notre-Dame de Paris

By Jean-Pierre Rousseau

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Vienna

To be dreamt, sung, played and written: Tinney und Heumann bei den Wiener Resonanzen

By Jens Klier, 23 January 2025

Wenn Musikträume in Poeticall Musicke to be sung to the Lyra viol wahr werden, dann ist „come again” innig-ernster Wunsch, diese Sinnlichkeit schnell wieder in Erfüllung gehen zu lassen.

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Vienna

23 Jan 2025

Wiener Resonanzen: To be dreamt, sung, played and written

By Jens Klier

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Zurich

Scheinwerfer auf William Byrd beim Festival Alte Musik Zürich

By Thomas Schacher, 24 September 2023

Beim Gedenkkonzert zum 400. Todestag des grossen englischen Komponisten setzten die Sängerin Jessica Jans, die Cembalistin Friederike Chylek und das Cellini Consort Massstäbe.

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Zurich

24 Sep 2023

Scheinwerfer auf William Byrd beim Festival Alte Musik Zürich

By Thomas Schacher

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Toulouse

À Toulouse, Jordi Savall revient vers Tous les matins du monde

By Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 02 May 2023

Revenant avec l'écrivain Pascal Quignard sur l'aventure du film d'Alain Corneau, Jordi Savall et ses partenaires ont parfois paru brouillon – mais la soirée n'a pas manqué de charme pour autant.

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Toulouse

02 May 2023

À Toulouse, Jordi Savall revient vers Tous les matins du monde

By Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

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Paris

Le Biber étincelant de Sophie Gent envoûte les Bouffes du Nord

By Philippe Ramin, 23 May 2022

Dans un programme qui mettait à l'honneur le compositeur autrichien, la violoniste était accompagnée de Jean Rondeau, Thomas Dunford et Myriam Rignol, donnant lieu à un concert d'une grande beauté.

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Paris

23 May 2022

Le Biber étincelant de Sophie Gent envoûte les Bouffes du Nord

By Philippe Ramin

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Froville

Plein feu sur Froville avec 25 bougies et une éblouissante Arpeggiata

By Jean Landras, 21 May 2022

Le Festival de musique sacrée et baroque de Froville a inauguré sa 25e édition avec une éblouissante prestation de L'Arpeggiata, entre pages savantes et musiques populaires, éveillant des images traversant âges et traditions.

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Froville

21 May 2022

Plein feu sur Froville avec 25 bougies et une éblouissante Arpeggiata

By Jean Landras

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Paris

Jordi Savall et ses sages Follias déçoivent à Orsay

By Philippe Ramin, 19 May 2022

Dans un programme qui comportait les danses et ostinatos les plus répandus de la Renaissance, un quatuor de fameux représentants de Hesperion XXI déçoit, manquant de fluidité et de précision dans le jeu.

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Paris

19 May 2022

Jordi Savall et ses sages Follias déçoivent à Orsay

By Philippe Ramin

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Boulogne-Billancourt

Le Consort couronne Haendel à La Seine Musicale et détrône sa reine

By Philippe Ramin, 12 April 2022

Véritable star de cette soirée « Royal Haendel », Le Consort vole la vedette à Eva Zaïcik dont le somptueux instrument manque d’audace.

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Boulogne-Billancourt

12 Apr 2022

Le Consort couronne Haendel à La Seine Musicale et détrône sa reine

By Philippe Ramin

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Montreal

Le voyage extraordinaire de Constantinople et l'Accademia del piacere au MBAM

By Sébastien Daigle, 09 April 2022

Salle Bourgie, l'ensemble montréalais Constantinople a célébré ses vingt ans en compagnie de l'Accademia del piacere, dans un programme foisonnant.

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Montreal

09 Apr 2022

Le voyage extraordinaire de Constantinople et l'Accademia del piacere

By Sébastien Daigle

Toulouse

Monteverdi et Jordi Savall au Théâtre du Capitole pour lancer 2022

By Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer, 10 January 2022

Pour ce premier concert de l'année 2022, le Théâtre du Capitole proposait un retour aux sources avec un concert entièrement dédié à Monteverdi et à ses madrigaux, entre canti guerrieri et canti amorosi.

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Toulouse

10 Jan 2022

Monteverdi et Jordi Savall au Théâtre du Capitole pour lancer 2022

By Arnaud Saura-Ziegelmeyer

Barcelona

Cuando el pasado se convierte en presente: Jordi Savall y su magia renacentista en el Palau de la Música

By Maria Sánchez, 09 November 2021

El maestro Jordi Savall regresa formando conjunto con varios de sus integrantes habituales de Hespèrion XXI, rescatando de nuevo temas olvidados del repertorio musical de finales del XVII.

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Barcelona

09 Nov 2021

Cuando el pasado se convierte en presente: Jordi Savall en el Palau

By Maria Sánchez

Herment

Les Timbres illuminent le festival Bach en Combrailles

By Philippe Ramin, 10 August 2021

Dans un programme entièrement consacré à Telemann, Les Timbres confirment qu'ils sont l'un des plus beaux ensembles de chambre baroques.

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Herment

10 Aug 2021

Les Timbres illuminent le festival Bach en Combrailles

By Philippe Ramin

Madrid

Sendas del Mar común: Jordi Savall y Pedro Estevan en el Círculo de Bellas Artes

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño, 29 November 2020

Jordi Savall y Pedro Estevan ofrecen un íntimo diálogo de músicas con las que reencontrarse, y redescubrir con ellas el Mar de culturas y sonidos de los que nos hemos alejado.

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Madrid

29 Nov 2020

Sendas del Mar común: Jordi Savall y Pedro Estevan

By Leonardo Mattana Ereño

Paris

Ann Hallenberg, maîtresse du souffle et du verbe à la Philharmonie

By Philippe Ramin, 29 September 2020

Formidable Salon Purcell à la Philharmonie ! Dans des songs et autres pièces pour clavecin, Ann Hallenberg et Christophe Rousset donnent une interprétation exceptionnelle des œuvres du maître anglais.

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Paris

29 Sep 2020

Ann Hallenberg, maîtresse du souffle et du verbe à la Philharmonie

By Philippe Ramin