Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI: Baroque Revolution

Just imagine the impression the music of the Baroque had on its first listeners.

Its lavish decoration, heady emotional expression and virtuosic displays made its leading exponents into revered figures.

Who better to bring that impact to life than the early music legend Jordi Savall and his ensemble Hespèrion XXI?

Celebrated for projects mingling scholarship and entertainment, technical excellence and appealing theatricality, the ensemble turns tonight to the revolutionary innovations in music at the courts of Europe between the late 16th and 17th centuries.

Ranging from London to Venice and Naples, they evoke the pioneering sound-worlds of composers including Ruffo, Hume, Frescobaldi, Kapsberger, Cavalieri, Falconieri and more.

Performers

Hespèrion XXI

Jordi Savall director

Repertoire

Ruffo: La gamba; La disperata; La piva from Capricci in musica a tre voci

Cavalieri: Sinfonia from Rappresentatione di Anima, et di Corpo; Ballo del Granduca from La Pellegrina

Hume: The Lady Canes delight - almaine

Gibbons: Fantasia a 3, No.12

Holborne: Heigh ho holiday - galliard; The Night watch - almaine

Anonymous: Variations on a ground (ca.1610)

Holborne: Lullabie - galliard

Scheidt: Galliard Battaglia (Battle Suite), SSWV.59

R Johnson (2): The Nobleman

Brade: Scottish dance

R Johnson (2): The Satyrs' dance

Frescobaldi: Canzon terza, à due canti, F.8.14c

Falconieri: Ciaccona from Canzone, Bk.1

Zéspedes: Guaracha (Ay que me abraso)

Kapsberger: Variations sur La Folia

Marini: Passacaglia a 4, Op.22 No.25

Merula: Ciaccona, Op.12 No.20

Anonymous: Folias criollas

Need to know

Age guidance

For ages 7+

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