Le Concert des Nations

Handel - Water Music Suites

Recorded March 1993, remastered February 2008

Haydn: The Seven Last Words of Our Saviour on the Cross (Orchestral version, 1786)

The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross was premièred in Cadiz, a city at the southernmost tip of the Iberian Peninsula. It was commissioned by a confraternity called the Hermandad de la Santa Cueva at the end of the 18th century. At this time, Cadiz was a prosperous and cosmopolitan city and Haydn was famous all over Europe. For his second recording of this masterpiece, Jordi Savall has decided to play not only on period instruments, but also in a 'period place', the Santa Cueva Church, in which the première took place in 1786. Moreover, Jordi Savall has commissioned two texts from the theologist Raimon Panikkar and the writer José Saramago (Nobel Prize for Literature 1998). Returning to the original context for which Haydn's work was written, he thought it fitting to invite two great masters of spiritual and humanistic thought of our own day to complement the brief Biblical quotations with a series of texts and commentaries which reflect their profound spiritual and humanistic convictions. Follow that!

Ludi Musici

The Spirit of Dance 1450 - 1650

Savall: Lachrimæ Caravaggio

Texts by Dominique Fernandez

This new production from Alia Vox is a novelty in more ways than one. Almost all the music has been written by Jordi Savall, including a number of compositions and improvisations based on arrangements of works by Gesualdo, Monteverdi and Trabaci. It is also an unprecedented encounter between a writer and a musician, both inspired by the figure of a painter. Focussing on seven of the artist's most disturbing works and seven musical 'stanzas', respectively, the French writer Dominique Fernandez and Jordi Savall pay an impassioned tribute to this extraordinary artist through their own literary and musical perspectives on the genius of Caravaggio. Although the instrumental line-up in these compositions has its origins in the 17th century, both the musical language and expression are firmly rooted in the 21st century, Savall pays tribute to such modern composers such as Arvo Pärt, particularly in his approach to improvisation and dissonance, crossing genres, periods and disciplines. As always, Alia Vox presents a lavishly documented album, graced by a wealth of carefully selected illustrations.

(Recorded on September 5 - 8, 2005 at the Castle of Cardona (Catalunya))

Couperin, F: Les Concerts Royaux

Tous les matins du monde

Original soundtrack

Vivaldi - The Viola da Gamba in Concerto

Tous les matins du monde

10th anniversary edition - original soundtrack

Marquise

Original Film Soundtrack