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Vivaldi & Bach: Magnificats and Concerti
Manfredo Kraemer, Pablo Valetti (violins), Hanna Bayodi-Hirt, Johannette Zomer (sopranos), Damien Guillon (countertenor), David Munderloh (tenor) & Stephan MacLeod (baritone), Pierre Hantaï (harpsichord)
Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
To watch as well as hear two outstanding Baroque Magnificats is a thrilling experience. Jordi Savall's forces are in fine form, his soloists matched yet distinctively characterised...Savall... —
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The publication is performed complete and is wonderful listening, with expressive playing and superbly vibrant, rich sound. The balance of the inner parts and the lute is very satisfying, and... —
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Dixit Dominus: Vivaldi, Mozart, Handel
Marta Mathéu, Marta Bayodi-Hirt (sopranos), Anthony Roth Costanzo (alto), Makoto Sakurada (tenor), Furio Zanasi (bass) & Manfredo Kraemer (concertino)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
glorious singing and playing of irrepressable effervescence ... Superb SACD sound and a lavishly designed booklet —
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Francis Xavier - The Route of the Orient
RecommendedDriss El Maloumi & Lahoucine Baquir (oud & percussion) & Senhora del Mundo (voz, psalteri, sarod & tablas)
Hespèrion XXI & La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
Highlights here include performances by El Maloumi (oud), Zuckermand (sarod) and Seki (shakuhachi), while the singing of Yokio Tanaka (accompanying himself on biwa), though not an easy taste... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 7th January 2008
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Ambitious, magnificent, extraordinary, compelling, fabulous: Jordi Savall’s indomitable vision recreates the soundworld of 100 years of conflict, from the 30 Years War to the War of the Spanish... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2016, Winner - Best Collection
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Vivaldi, Le Quattro Stagioni & Concerti d'Ll Cimento Dell'armonia E Dell'invenzione
Alfia Bakieva, Bianca Riesner, Catalina Reus, Ángela Moro, Miren Zeberio, Marguerite Wassermann, Les Musiciennes du Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
Album-wide, the musicians themselves serve up an attractively lightly buoyant, silvery-sounding, refined sound whose continuo combination of lute, chitaronne and harpsichord has at times an... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Eros et subtilitas
Capricci, Madrigali e Danze in Dialogo
Anne-Kathryn Olsen (soprano), Riccardo Pisami (baritone), Bertrand Cuiller (harpsichord), Berengere Sardin (harp), Pau Marco (viola bastarda), Bor Zuljan (lute), Guillermo Perez (organetto)
The effect of this sequence of variations and musical dialogues is strangely mesmerising – a shifting play of surface texture and contrapuntal depth. —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Early Music
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This is an entrancing CD, with dances, laments, and feast-day songs linked in a slow-quick-slow structure. Perhaps as an implicit tribute to Montserrat Figueras, there are no vocal numbers,... —
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BBC Music Magazine, September 2013, Disc of the month
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With a performance even finer than that of the Bruckner, Savall gives Schumann’s early symphonic writing a weight, thrust and emotional impact that’s enormously involving, making it seem hardly... —
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Gramophone Magazine, June 2025, Editor's Choice
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Biber: Baroque Splendor - Missa Salisburgensis
Recorded in Cardona (Catalunya) January 14-16, 2015 except for La Battalia à 10, recorded on February 11th, 2002
Hanna Bayodi-Hirt, Marianne Beate Kielland, Pascal Bertin, David Sagastume, Nicholas Mulroy, Lluis Vilamajó, Daniele Carnovich, Antonio Abete
La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
This is Biber in gargantuan mode … superbly recorded. Groups ranging from solo voices with a pair of recorders to the full ensemble complete with brass and drums are thrown across the huge spaces... —
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