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Jordi Savall: Playlist
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FIRST PUBLISHED 20 APR 2025
If there’s one living being who embodies the spirit of Early Music in our time, it’s Jordi Savall. He has breathed life into the viola da gamba, an instrument that, following its heyday in the 16th to 18th centuries, had been cast into the shadows. Savall has shown us how the gamba’s soulful, expressive sound can still evoke profound emotions and simmering passions in today’s world. As a conductor, his scholarship has shed light on neglected repertoire and dusted-down familiar works, allowing them to gleam anew. - Ash Khandekar
This playlist explores the wealth of recordings by Jordi Savall, to accompany Ash Khandekar's interview with the extraordinary musician for Continuo Connect. We have chosen a selection of 25 tracks, featuring works by composers from France, Spain, Italy, Britain and Germany, as well as traditional pieces from a variety of cultures which reflect the enormous breadth of Savall's work.
Listen below or on our Spotify Playlist - Jordi Savall.
Lully: Le bourgeois gentilhomme, LWV43 – IV : ‘Marche pour la cérémonie Turque’
Le Concert des Nations | Jordi Savall
Marais: Improvisations sur les folies d'Espagne
Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe: Les pleurs (version for 2 viols)
Christophe Coin | Jordi Savall
Forqueray: Suite No. 1 – ‘La Portugaise’
Marais: Muzettes I-II from ‘Le 3ème livre de pièces de viole’
Pierre Hantaï | Rolf Lislevand | Jordi Savall
Marais: Allemande ‘La bizarre’ from ‘Le 3ème livre de pièces de viole’
Jordi Savall et al.
Binchois: Evocation 1 ‘Nunc iam cessit pontus et omnes patitur leges’ from Medea, Act II
Montserrat Figueras | Jordi Savall
Hidalgo: Ay que me rio de amor
Montserrat Figueras | Jordi Savall
Cabanilles: Corrente italiana (Overture)
Hespèrion XX | Jordi Savall
Purcell: Fantasia No. 12 in 4 parts
Hespèrion XX | Jordi Savall
Hume: The First Part of Ayres, French, Pollish and Others – 3. ‘Tobacco’
Paul Hillier | Jordi Savall
Gibbons: Royal Fantasie I
Jordi Savall et al.
Lawes: Consort Set à 6 in F minor – ‘Aire’
Hespèrion XXI | Jordi Savall
Brade: Paduana (I) from Newe ausserlesene Paduanen, Galliarden, Cantzonen, Allmand und Couranten
Hespèrion XX | Jordi Savall
Traditional Scottish: Prince Charlie’s Last View of Edinburg
Jordi Savall | Andrew Lawrence-King
Traditional: Sinanon Saran (Chant de griot)
Kassé-Mady Diabaté et al | Jordi Savall
Romance Sefardí: El rey de Francia (Smyrna)
Montserrat Figueras| Hespèrion XXI | Jordi Savall
Traditional Turkish: Hisar Buselik
Hespèrion XXI | Jordi Savall
Traditional Serbian: Pastirska Elegija
Jordi Savall | Bora Dugic | Marko Lazović | Slobodan Marković
Falconieri: Passacalle
Hespèrion XXI | Jordi Savall
Telemann: Concerto for recorder and viola da gamba in A minor, TWV 52:a1 – II: Allegro
Michael Piguet | Jordi Savall | Orchestre de chambre Jean-François Paillard
Scheidt: Galliard à 4 – Cantus VIII
JS Bach: Sonata for viola da gamba No. 3 in G minor, BWV 1029 – I: Vivace
Jordi Savall | Ton Koopman
Biber: Missa bruxellensis – I: Kyrie
La Capella Reial de Catalunya | Le Concert des Nations | Jordi Savall
Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat, Op. 50 Eroica - II: Marche funèbre: Adagio assai
Le Concert des Nations | Jordi Savall
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