Playing a range of viols as well as lute, theorbo and guitar, the ensemble sounded in perfect synch and easily conjured a group centuries old. David Mayoral's contributions on drum and tambourines ...

A few centuries later, Dimitrie Cantemir could have been a world music pioneer. As it was, born in 1673, he had to settle for being Prince of Moldavia. But while in Istanbul, as diplomat-cum-hostage, ...

Over 50 years ago, Jordi Savall put aside his cello to start learning a new instrument: the viola da gamba. "Everyone thought I was mad", he says. But if the phenomenal success of Hespèrion XX (and ...

Catalan viol virtuoso and musical polymath Jordi Savall returns with the follow-up to his compelling Routes of Slavery program honoring the more than 25 million people enslaved by Western nations over ...

When Savall (pictured below by David Ignaszewski) walked on with the other members of Hespèrion XXI, he was leaning on a crutch, but the moment he started playing his treble viol he seemed physically ...

It is 25 years since the foundation of the York early music festival - during which time period instruments have moved from the margins to the mainstream, and, in the words of festival director Delma ...

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The paramount gamba player and his regular colleagues—the soprano Montserrat Figueras, Hespèrion XXI, and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, along with some new collaborators, the musicians of Mexico’s ...

What image pops into your head when you think of “classical music”? An orchestra, right? Playing a symphony— a composition without any singers. However, from the beginnings of the classical tradition ...