Browse: Alia Vox (label)

If an hour and a quarter of music based on 16 bars appears daunting, take courage from the immense stylistic variety over 200 years and the splendidly colourful range of instruments playing it.... — BBC Music Magazine, December 2005, 5 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…

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…

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…

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…