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1 Annibale Padovano: Aria della Battaglia a 8
2 Francesco Usper: La Battaglia per cantar e sonar a 8
3 Bastiano Chilese: Canzon in echo a 8
4 Giovanni Gabrieli: Canzon a 12 in echo
5 Nicolo Fontei: Pianto d'Erinna
6 Barbara Strozzi: Il Lamento
7 Anon.: Pavana: El Bisson (a 4)
8 Jacopo Peri: Lamento di Iole
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Deutsche Grammophon/Archiv Produktion Release on CD for the First Time Bataglie e Lamenti Featuring Jordi Savall
Album of 16th & 17th Century works devoted to depicting scenes of battle and lamentation

Jordi Savall is hugely respected both as an instrumentalist and as a music director across early music. Throughout his career he has made outstanding period instrument recordings, exploring the roots of European Musical tradition, and his masterly playing of the viola da gamba gave immense depth to the success of the film ‘Tous les matins du monde'. Deutsche Grammophon is immensely proud to present this album from Savall and Hespèrion XX which was recorded in 1981 and has never been issued on CD before making this a rare find amongst the catalog.

In the 17th Century, battles were celebrated with musical compositions which inspired soldiers with the glory of the past. But battles breed as much grief as grandeur. "Bataglie e Lamenti" is a musical journey which takes listeners through exhilarating and somber landscapes, masterfully depicted by Savall, Figueras and Hespèrion XX.

  • The direction of history. Jordi Savall takes on Schubert / VAN
    Posted At: October 20, 2022
    Jordi Savall is an exceptional figure in today’s music world. His career as a concert performer, teacher, researcher and creator of new musical and cultural projects, makes him one of the principal architects of the current revaluation of historical music. His task, which has earned him world renown and which is always brimming with live emotion and spectacular creative vitality, is one in which he has alwa...

  • Jordi Savall brings Scotland, Brittany and the Basque country together for 'Celtic Universe' at Koerner Hall / The Globe and Mail
    Posted At: May 8, 2018

    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 dance-crazy Celtic areas of Scotland, Brittany and the Basque country in northern Spain for the Celtic Universe concert at Toronto's Koerner Hall on Thursday. No sweat. To span the 400 years in some two hour...

  • Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI captivate with richly played viol music / San Diego Union-Tribune
    Posted At: January 31, 2017

    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 (Gregorian chant, around 800) to 1600, vocal music was the main concern of composers, the highest musical endeavor. That began to shift in the 16th century, and by the 17th, the most talented composers devot...

  • Jordi Savall tracks 400 years of slavery with musicians from Europe, Africa and South America / euronews
    Posted At: January 14, 2017

    Renowned Spanish composer and viol player Jordi Savall brought together musicians from Europe, Africa and South America in Brussels this week for a musical journey. The show travelled through 400 years of the history of slavery. In "The Routes of Slavery" the 75-year-old put together music linked to places that were affected by the grizzliest aspect of triangular trade: the enslavement and deportation of...

  • Hesperion XXI, led by Jordi Savall plays Rockport Festival / The Boston Musical Intelligencer
    Posted At: July 12, 2016

    On Friday of this sixth week of the Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Hespèrion XXI, led by the esteemed Jordi Savall, and the Mexican-based Tembembe Ensamble Continuo delivered exhilarating music inspired by the European discovery of the New World. Savall set out to explore the dialog between diverse coastal musical traditions-colonial, creole, African, indigenous-and how contemporary European...

  • Jordi Savall brings Hesperion XXI to Tanglewood / The Boston Globe
    Posted At: June 30, 2016

    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 days in a person's life: "the day you were born, and the day you find out why." The first day, for the Spanish-born Savall, occurred in 1941. The second came some 14 years later, when he began to play the ...
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