Over 50 years ago, Jordi Savall put aside his cello to start learning a new instrument: the viola da gamba. "Everyone thought I was mad", he says. But if the phenomenal success of Hespèrion XX (and ...

CAMBRIDGE – Viol doyen Jordi Savall finds consistency in variety. His oldest project, the storied period-instrument band Hespèrion XXI, has been touring concerts and churning out recordings of ...

“Passionate” and “improvisational” are not terms many would associate with the meticulous and ornate sound of Baroque music — until they encounter the work of Jordi Savall. Dubbed an “early-music ...

When the Catalan viol player Jordi Savall presented three concerts at the Metropolitan Museum earlier this month, one musical border after another seemed to melt away—borders between past and present, ...

Even early-music fans might be surprised to turn on the new CD by viola da gamba virtuoso Jordi Savall and hear music reminiscent of a salsa club late at night. "It is contemporary music inspired by ...

Jordi Savall arrived from Spain last week for the latest concert set with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. He arrived without his viola da gamba, of which he is an acknowledged modern master, but with ...

When we invoke the Spanish Golden Age, that thriving of arts and culture in the 16th and 17th centuries, we think, inevitably, of Cervantes, El Greco, Velázquez. In Madrid, Spaniards are daily ...

If the pipe organ was the king of instruments during the Baroque era, the viola da gamba was surely the prince at court. No musician in recent decades has done more to popularize the mellow-sounding ...