Medieval and Renaissance specialist Jordi Savall's forays into Classical-era and even Romantic music have not been greeted with the universal rapture accorded most of his early music recordings, but he is one of the great conductors of our time, and none is without points of interest. This one, with his choir La Capella Reial de Catalunya and orchestra Le Concert des Nations, is perhaps typical. For someone trained in the earlier eras of Western music, Savall has a perhaps surprising dramatic sense, and the opening sections ...
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Medieval and Renaissance specialist Jordi Savall's forays into Classical-era and even Romantic music have not been greeted with the universal rapture accorded most of his early music recordings, but he is one of the great conductors of our time, and none is without points of interest. This one, with his choir La Capella Reial de Catalunya and orchestra Le Concert des Nations, is perhaps typical. For someone trained in the earlier eras of Western music, Savall has a perhaps surprising dramatic sense, and the opening sections of Haydn's Die Schöpfung, Hob. 21/2, especially the Präludium representing Chaos, are extremely compelling. The ensemble is small, with a choir of 20 and 16 string players, and this does let Savall trace many details of orchestration and instrumental writing that are lost in thundering performances. Savall, or someone in his circle, dug up an attractive print of an early performance at the University of Vienna with forces of roughly this size (as usual with Savall, the booklet is...
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