The Doctor Who of music: Jordi Savall at SJSS

By David Karlin, 13 May 2019

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Reviewed at Smith Square Hall, London on 12 May 2019

Ortiz, Ricercata Segunda sobre la Spagna

Ortiz, Ruggiero Romanesca

Ortiz, Passamezzo moderno

Sanz, Jácaras

Sanz, Canarios

Dowland, Flow, my tears (Lacrimae Pavane)

Hume, A Souldiers Resolution

Hume, Harke, harke

Anonymous, Greensleeves

Valente, Gallarda Napolitana

Froberger, Lamentation sopra la dolorosa perdita della Real Majestà de Ferdinando IV, Rè de Romani

Abel, Prelude in D minor

Bach, Cello suite no. 5 in C minor, BWV1011 (Allemande)

Visée, Passacaille in D minor

Marais, Les Voix Humaines in D major, for viola da gamba and continuo

Marais, Les Folies d'Espagne

Hespèrion XXI

Jordi Savall, Director, Viola da Gamba

Xavier Díaz-Latorre, Theorbo

Andrew Lawrence-King, Harp

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.

*****

From the old world to the New World with Jordi Savall

Sandra Bowdler, 17th February

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.

****1

Las Rutas de los Esclavos: a spell-binding journey

Penny Homer, 10th January

Sounds of Mali, Brazil, Spain, Mexico and Madagascar blended to perfection with Colombia to create a masterpiece.

*****

Old Spain meets the New World

Penny Homer, 9th January

Jordi Savall, Hespèrion XXI and Tembembe Ensamble Continuo create an evening of magic in the Cartagenan hills.

****1

Lost Paradises in Cartagena

Penny Homer, 8th January

Jordi Savall and friends take us on a journey to the Spain of Colombus.

***11

An eclectic band of medieval minstrels

Simon Rees, 10th July

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.

****1

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David Karlin

David is a co-founder of Bachtrack. He is a musical omnivore interested in almost all types of music, but with a particular love of Italian opera. You can contact him from this link.

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