Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI chart a richly-coloured musical journey across Renaissance and early Baroque Europe. Drawing on dances, fantasias, pavans and variations from England, Italy, Germany, France and beyond, they illuminate a world of courtly splendour and melancholy reflection, brought vividly to life by one of today's foremost Early Music ensembles.

Programme:

1500 Venetian Dances
Anon. Pavana del Re
Galliarda la Traditora
El Todescho
Saltarello
Giorgio Mainerio Ungaresca

1540 Musica Nova
Hieronimus Parabosco Ricercar XIV 'Da Pacem Domine'

1589 Ricercari & Canzone da Sonare
Andrea Gabrieli Ricercar VII

1615 Canzone da Sonare
Gioseffo Guami Canzon a 4 sopra 'La Battaglia'

1612 Elizabethan & Jacobean Consort Music
Christopher Tye In Nomine a 5 'Crye'
John Dowland Lachrimae Pavan
Sir John Souch his Galliard
Orlando Gibbons In Nomine a 4
William Brade Ein Schottisch Tanz
Robert Johnson, William Brade The King's Morisco

1600–1630 Fantaisies & Dances at the Court of Louis XIII
Anon. Pavane pour le mariage du roy Louis XIII
Courante de la Reine d'Angleterre
Luigi Rossi Fantaisie Les Pleurs d'Orphée
Anon. Sarabanda 'A l'impero d'amore'
Ballet à cheval pour le gran carousel

1621 Ludi Musici in Germany
Samuel Scheidt Intrada XXII
Paduan V
Courant Dolorosa IX
Allemande XVI
Galliard VII

1550–1780 Folías & Dances
Pedro de San Lorenzo Folias
Antonio Martín y Coll Canarios
Anon. Codex Martínez Compañón: Cachua Serranita: El Huicho Nuebo

Performers:

Hespèrion XXI
Jordi Savall viola da gamba, director