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Catalonia’s resonant Château de Cardona sometimes makes the bassline heavy, the vigorous timpanist often forgets the crucial Beethovenian difference between one f and two, and the editor clipped... — Sunday Times, 16th August 2020 More…

The strings have a particularly inviting elastic, ‘gutty’ sound, free of the sparkle and sharp attack of metal-strung instruments. The mellow-toned period woodwind are particularly beautiful,... — Gramophone Magazine, August 2019 More…

As ever, Savall points up the sources’ colour, vitality, expressiveness and socio-political context in an exciting, fascinating and utterly beguiling programme … The singers are superb, displaying... — BBC Music Magazine, November 2016, 5 out of 5 stars More…

Jordi Savall eats this kind of thing for breakfast and marshals his forces with military efficiency – except the performance is looser and more spontaneous than that sounds, and riveting from... — Choir & Organ, April 2020, 4 out of 5 stars More…

achingly plangent … the poignancy of these songs from medieval and traditional sources – recorded on early and folk instruments immediately after the untimely passing of Savall’s artistic partner,... — Choir & Organ, July/August 2015 More…

From the age of 25 Boccherini lived in Spain… and Spanish elements lend distinctive colours to his music. Bubbling high spirits from composer and performers alike produce a most entertaining... — BBC Music Magazine, May 2006, 4 out of 5 stars More…

Typically, Savall and his vocal consort and instrumentalists achieve more achingly and lingeringly beautiful moments than anyone else — Gramophone Magazine, June 2010 More…

The virtuoso Jordi Savall surveys Diego Ortiz's treatise on decoration, variation and improvisation (Rome, 1553). Wonderful. — BBC Music Magazine, January 2014, 5 out of 5 stars More…