Monday night at Lincoln Center in New York City, early-music expert Jordi Savall is taking his audience back to ancient Jerusalem. But this project is different from the work that has earned Savall ...

There was a time when early music (work written before about 1750) seemed to attract the same types that George Orwell saw flocking towards socialism: "... every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, ...

What image pops into your head when you think of “classical music”? An orchestra, right? Playing a symphony— a composition without any singers. However, from the beginnings of the classical tradition ...

Call it folk, world or early music: Jordi Savall is the master artist who makes whatever project he takes up seem to illuminate entire eras. Seattle will host the Barcelona-based musician for a ...

Like the soon-to-open Renaissance galleries it was conceived to celebrate, Wednesday's program by Jordi Savall and his Hesperion XXI at the Cleveland Museum of Art was a trove of delicate, detailed ...

Throughout his long and distinguished career, Jordi Savall has researched, conducted and performed music from many countries and cultures, in the process unearthing masterworks that would otherwise ...

When talking about how he created his uniquely broad-sweeping life in music, Jordi Savall, the famed viola da gamba player, likes to quote a famous saying by Mark Twain about the two most important ...

Jordi Savall, the great Catalan viol player, conductor, and musical archaeologist who tirelessly unearths buried treasures of music history, still has dreams. He dreams of a world in which different ...

Furio Zanasi, Adriana Fernandez, Sara Mingardo, Gloria Banditelli, Sonia Prima, Cinzia Forte, Fulvio Bettini; Coro del Teatro de la Zarzuela, Concert des Nations conducted by Jordi Savall Alia Vox, ...

Catalan viol virtuoso Jordi Savall and his various ensembles — Hespèrion XXI, Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Reial de Catalunya — have such an extensive repertoire, from the 10th century to the ...

There's something of a forensic science lurking within the music of Jordi Savall. The viol, a six-stringed instrument beloved of the baroque period, lay silent for more than two centuries until this ...

The accepted belief is that Jordi Savall’s genius is in the range of the musical pilgrimages he takes audiences on. Wasn’t it 1,000 years’ worth of Venice just a concert season or so ago? Now it’s to ...