Jordi Savall and La Capella Reial

[pedradelencant2]

Barrejar música i política és, senzillament, estúpid. Jordi Savall, Pau Casals i tants altres catalans il.lustres són personatges universals

[mephisto01cl]

Pero que bueno es Jordi Savall !!!

[janequita1]

beautiful music... We can imagine the dancing as well

[h0ah0ah0ah0ah0a]

3 people felt their preference for modern music threatened upon having watched this video.

[Solitudinis]

I had the joy of seeing and hearing Jordi Savall some years ago in Madeira, the island where I live ^_^ So marvellous ^_^

[sortabli]

Bravo!

[RichardFeynmanRules]

So incredibly beautiful! I consider learning about Jordi Savall one of my best musical "discoveries" of the past years. Since hearing him for first time, I've bought a number of his albums and they've all been superb. Genius!

[erizx]

are those cellos??

[ninebreaker21]

@erizx No, they are viols, a family of instruments that predated the violin family (technically the modern double bass is a viol). They come in different sizes - treble, tenor, bass (the size similar to a cello). I don't see a tenor in this ensemble.

[ninebreaker21]

@erizx The largest is a violone. Note these instruments have frets (dried gut tied around the neck), more to aid in timbre than intonation, although they can be slanted to allow for minute changes in intonation as well. Strings are gut, and are bowed underhand. Tuning is primarily in fourths, with a third in the middle, similar to a guitar.

[TheRiqzster]

Can't get too much of this stuff . . .

[moregreatmusic]

Very nice!

Please check out my new performance of some french baroque music by Robert de Visée aswell!

[barbara314me]

Wonderful. 

[ooooooooser]

funny to see a younger looking pedro estervan, with the drum he still uses! does anyone know any thing about it? perhaps he made it......

[dvalenciap]

Sencillamente, me emociona, taaaaaaaaaaaaaanto!!!......

[csabaimate]

why i cant embed?

[23vb7sl]

Amazing Perfect !

[Weesel71]

Always a good find. A very fun suite.

[ballaghadereen]

J'aime la musique de la vieille Espagne, and Jordi in particular.

[diopnar1]

Have you ever visited this town? Where are you from?

[vasrach]

I love you <3

[Davccelion]

Oh, my, how young they all look like, specially Rolf Lislevand (the guitar player)!

[MaBu888]

Graciaaaaass

[syrinx79]

I don't know much about this kind of music, but I think it's really beautiful. Is that some sort of baroque guitar the man is playing in the beginning?

[diopnar1]

I saw him in Rethymno Crete during the summer Renaissance festival. He performed in a Renaissance building with candles and 38o C. He was amazing, his music divine

[vasrach]

@diopnar1 wish I was there...

[AdmiralPrussia]

Me encanta la musica de espana vieja!

[alexnax888]

grazieeee!!!

[orion777temp]

VIVA JORDI SAVALL Y COMPANIA

[barbarabarbi]

qué jovenes están todos!

de qué año es?

[sergiorobertoval]

Demasiado..demasiado contenido de belleza, Es un toque balsámico, es mas que perfecto, es sublime..

[carinadruantia]

So beautiful! I love Jordi Savall!!

[fillfucker]

impressionant!

[rssothon]

Es de cuando en España se hacia la mejor música del mundo.

[andreluiz475]

andre luiz.catalunya milenar .sempre nos surpreende.

[fillfucker]

@rssothon puta espanya

[rssothon]

@fillfucker España, que deriva de hispania era como referian los romanos al conjunto de poblaciones que habitaban la peninsula ibérica. La actual Cataluña era logicamente Hispania (España) para los romanos. Es decir España no se entiende sin sus partes constituyentes. Como veo que tu cultura no es mucha, cuando quieras insultar refierete a puta Castilla y Leon, puta Navarra o Reino Nazarí de Granada...que es en la época en la que te has quedado...Bona tarda chavalin

[NetherDrakeye]

@rssothon te olvidas que el concepto ha mudado. España puede venir de Hispania, pero hoy en día no se refiere a la Iberia, se refiere a un páis concreto. Portugal es parte de la Antigua Hispania pero no es España.

[rssothon]

@NetherDrakeye ¿Tanto ha mudado el concepto? La italia de hoy es un pais que se ajusta muy bien a la republica romana y sin embargo en la edad media era todo un conglomerado de reinos y ciudades estado. El territorio de Francia actual coincide bastante bien con la provincia de la galia romana y sin embargo en la edad media tambien era un conglomerado de estados. Lo mismo pasa con Grecia, Marruecos, Libia, Turquia, etc. Al final las provincias romanas acabaron siendo paises.

[NetherDrakeye]

@rssothon No. En la Península Ibérica hay Naciones muy diferentes, Portugal es un Estado ANTERIOR a la formación de España. España y Portugal tinen culturas totalmente diferentes (con las similaridades naturales a estados geograficamente próximos)

Eso de que te hablé no es ni discutible!

pero te digo también, que en España hay Naciones diferentes y que pienso que un día España se repartirá en varios Estados minoritarios.

Me desculpa por mi malo castellano.

[AZ4059]

@rssothon en algún momento España era algo mas que una región geográfica, pese a sus diferencias étnicas y sociales, todos tenían fe en el amor y eso era lo que les daba nobleza, por eso se componía esta música y se hacían cosas tan maravillosas. Aveces a existido una España de valores, de principios, esa es la España grande, noble y poderosa. Con su fe España llego a mover montañas.

[AZ4059]

@rssothon Cuando hablo con admiración y cariño de España me refiero a los Epañoles de fe, humanistas, generosos, vicionarios, artistas, aventureros, colonisadores, cvilisadores, juristas, etc. No me refiero a los hombres "g" a esos viciosos y promiscuos empleaduchos sin valores que reniegan de la fe, del verdadero amor, de los valores, que demuestran su ignorancia avergonzándose del campo. Esta generación de renegados no merece ser recordada. Lo mas decoroso es el olvido perpetuo.

[isomolle]

Todella upea esitys!

[corderoseier]

Maravilloso. He podido acudir muchas veces a conciertos del Maestro Savall en Graz . Siempre es un placer oirlo.

[Thenser]

L'Allemande est tout bonnement splendide

[maxotti]

Is this music by John Dowland (english lute master from the century XVI/XVII) ? It suonds similar...

[ninebreaker21]

Not Dowland, but it's music from the Renaissance, the same stylistic period. The first piece is an arrangement of a vihuela da mano (early guitar tuned like a lute) pavan by Luis Milan.

[fiamengoTA]

splendido

[Sabo1020]

I would very much like to see them live... And I would like to listen to a lesson of his philosophy how to play (ancient) music. How to listen.. I believe in the individual pulse of every piece of music. And his versions fit.

[ninebreaker21]

I saw Jordi Savall with his wife and daughter and they are amazing. Jump on a chance to see Savall!

[ajroshumba]

Sem palavras...

[manbarand]

Senzillament fantàstic.

[gorkythe45]

simonaris the title and composer are in the starts of the video; see in 0,05.

[gorkythe45]

Past month I saw him with Concert des nations in The Caixa Terrasa foundation in Terrassa Barcelona. Great.

[kwantum07]

esto es el ejemplo perfecto de una interpretación simple que es absolutamente grandiosa-sólo el pulso de esta música te hipnotiza para llevarte a otra esfera-jordi, gracias por crear tanta belleza

[8stringerr]

is that a bass de gamba at 2:36 on the right?

also how do you pronounce Jordi?

[yoglash]

it is called a Violone - the largest member of the Viola da Gamba (= Viol) family, larger than the bass gamba.

Jordi Savall here plays treble viol, the guy with the beard on his left plays tenor viol, the beautiful blond girl plays bass viol, and the guy you're talking about plays the violone.

[xinoxanocatala]

How to pronounce Jordi: the first consonant sound like the "s" in "vision" or "pleasure", the rest as you would pronounce in English. The strong syllable is the first one.

Jordi is George in Catalan

[naorakenzo]

Does anyone know what are these songs and who composed them?

[jannevellamo]

Mainly medieval, renaissance and baroque music by composers that few people these days remember. Some are spanish, some catalan, provencale, french or italian. Dowland of course is british.

[naorakenzo]

Thank you very much.

I play baroque violin and rebec. So if someone tell me who composed (arranged) them, I'll try to play them. I searched several dance books of renaissance era for those songs before, but I couldn't find them.

[AnimaMiaPerdona]

The second piece is Danza del hacha

Quite nice but hard to get hold of

[patafoz83]

The third song I have on a recording of Jose Marin songs, this one unexpectedly about a faithless beauty jilting the singer.

[debartzen]

Tan grande como injustamente desconocido en España.

[medievalx1]

Tienes toda la razón. Otro gran músico español Gregorio Paniagua es aún mas desconocido.

[EdgarNordlige]

Ta muzyka jest cudowna.

[alexnax888]

ECCEZZIONALE....

[jcjlf]

Great performance by the great master and his equally well performing ensemble.

The representation of the solo players on the screen is regrettably poor though...

[nickdby]

I love the canario my favorite music form!

[Caravagg10]

Qué delicia... It is great!

Thank You very much!

[HARMONICO101]

Wow, this has to be at least a decade old. Jordi's hair is mostly grey now!

[jsaltod]

Jordi savall the best!

[kupka10]

hello,

I would like to know if the violone is in G or D and about what model is it?

thanks.

[b1970b]

How about enabling embedding? I love this.

[MYVE58]

Savall : il primo ed il più grande !

[jmdez]

What do you say about this? Sublime. Can the human soul express better? I love Savall. A treasure to be sure!

[vasrach]

What is that tiny giutar??I always thought when I listened to the recording that it was a lute.

Savall has a great understanding of early baroque-renaissance music.Another favorite baroque performer of mine is Rinaldo Alessandrini but he is more specialized to late baroque music. Check him out too!

[tromba8]

probably it is a ''vihuela'' the ancestor of the guitar^^

[edifidel]

Thank you!

[JERJES58]

im luthier and it's, in effect, a vihuela. Enjoy ancient music!

[norcalrobbie2]

Hey... the part beginning at 3:08 uses the ground from Greensleeves! (A little faster than what we're used to) I know Savall has recorded Greensleeves on one of his Hesperion albums as well.

[selmasupersad]

the ground of greensleeves is called romanesca, a certain harmonic pattern.

[JERJES58]

the ground of the 3:08 part in Spain it's called ''guárdame las vacas'' since the Renaissance. It's not clear if the romanesca was the same or not.''Guárdame las vacas'' it´s: IV-I-II-VI#/ IV-I-II-VI#-II.

[jonathantosio]

That wind section is stunning. The echo they get out of the place is amazing. It sends the BIGGEST (good) chill down my spine. MMmmmm =)

[trapanatans]

Yes indeed. Cornett truly is as "a ray of sunshine piercing the shadows".

[egutes]

Gorgeous!

[josetrompetunian]

Ole mi maestro aisss como me gustaria tocar asi joer soy un taco de guacamole con jalapeños

[jjnsn]

I believe this is 'Canarios (Improvisation)' from the Savall/Hespèrion XXI album 'Ostinato'. Can anyone confirm that?

[sh1k4n]

Unfortunately it is not, I have the CD and these songs are not on it. There is a Canarios (improvisation) but they are not the same piece, I think the one on Ostinato is better =)

[sh1k4n]

Sorry, I was wrong, it is the Canarios from Ostinato and it starts at 5:03. great song .

[norcalrobbie2]

Are these pieces out on a CD somewhere? I know Jordi Savall's record output is pretty large and diverse...

[Morganafrischmann]

I think in Barcelona is easier to find them. Last summer he played in Sitges; I was about to see him but I couldn't... Schade!

[jannokas85]

I just read all the comments under this video and i just can't but be amazed with how much everyone has loved this music...only positive comments! Really quite extraordinary :).

[Bachsoboe]

It is beautiful music, and timeless as well.

Thanks for posting.

[hilarteur]

sublime...!

[pedrodemena]

When I listen to this music, I remember the great beauty of the Occidental music in all centuries and the importance of Savall's work who give us a beautiful music. Great, master!

[nikolaimedtner]

so beautiful, whenever i am excited, it calms me down listening to this

[vanishingofemptiness]

anyone know what particular piece they are playing?

[maurom1987]

Trovo l'ultimo pezzo assolutamente straordinario; la semplicità e la purezza nella melodia e nei precisissimi e raffinatissimi legnetti, gocce di rugiada in un mattino di primavera.

[jonathantosio]

OH MY GOD! Best video on youtube, period.

[Neogryzor]

Delicadeza y sensibilidad en altísimo grado. BRAVO

[jasonsage12]

that drummer is rad

[simonaris]

What composer is this and what release is this from?

[141407078989]

what year is this?

[norcalrobbie2]

This is really great. Savall makes me happy to be part Catalan :)

[wedacy]

Super, wonderfull diving in the past.

[stihtchev]

wonderful. how relaxing such pieces are.

[PeriodinstrumentfaN]

I very much second the notion --> listening to this is just like cleaning up your mind from all that romantic mess. feels good ~ nikolaimedtner

[LuisRamos0]

it is!!!

[141407078989]

hahahaha, right on!

[jonathantosio]

agreed!

[HARMONICO101]

Very sweet.

[BarNuun]

Very nice time machine experience, always true with Jordi Savall and there is Rolf Lislevand also. Thank you for posting.

[aymarajilatanaka]

amigo davidon30 ...muchas gracias por compartir tan bella musica y con tan celebres musicos ..

[danensago]

maravilloso, genios reunidos tocando hermosas piezas. I invite to see my videos. Thank.

[haimcito]

exellent music and musicians, for my own taste there is too much percussion.

[nikolaimedtner]

listening to this is just like cleaning up your mind from all that romantic mess. feels good

[3tristan]

Nice and uncomplicated music.

[drunquit]

mind soothing -_-

[Gealach74]

this is excellent!

its quite the beggining of jordi savall right?

[baroque2]

This is so beautiful it made me cry.

[starcommander55]

Grr... the camerawork is a little annoying. I like watching movies like this to see the players techniques, and the person on the cameras never looks at the cornettist when he is actually playing anything of interest...

[Seeker320]

Indeed, music can be incredibly beautiful.

La Capella Reial de Catalunya is by far my favourite orchestra for music of Middle Ages and Renaissance.

[paquitolo]

Capella Reial de Catalunya is not really de Orchestra. It is not right in the head title. The name of this orch is Hesperion XXI, 'La Capella Reial' or Royal Chapel into English, is the choir that Savall used with his orchestra.

By the other hand, you have reason. Is there any more beautiful that this kind of Early Music? I think the answer is no.

[paquitolo]

... and unfortunately this Spanish music is better known out of Spain that in this country. It's a pity! It is only a lack of culture and education.

[paquitolo]

... and by the way, the guy who plays baroque guitar is Rolf Lislevand.

Try with this video and enjoy:

youtube dot com / watch?v=UhKuL75sLfQ

playing a Chaconne on his theorbe...

[rfdarsie]

I think in this video he's playing a vihuela, not a baroque guitar.