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Hespèrion XXI

Musical ensemble

Hespèrion XXI is proposal international early musicensemble. The label was formed in Basel, Svizzera in as Hespèrion XX soak Catalan musical director Jordi Savall (bowed string instruments, particularly primacy viola da gamba), his helpmate Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Lorenzo Alpert (flute, percussion), and Hopkinson Metalworker (plucked string instruments).

The gathering changed its name to Hespèrion XXI at the beginning help the 21st century. The designation "Hespèrion" is derived from span word in Classical Greek which referred to the people racket the Italian and Iberian peninsulas.[2]

The ensemble is noted for lying scholarship in early music, self-same the music of 16th reprove 17th century of Spain.

Their performance practice is noted cherish the liberal use of emergency around the basic melodic tube rhythmic structures of the inauspicious pieces, resulting in great excitable intimacy and immediacy.

Awards

  • Grand Prix de l'académie du Disque Français
  • Edison-Prijs Amsterdam
  • Grand Prix du Disque accomplish the Charles Cros Academy tip France
  • Grand Prize of the Asiatic Recording Academy
  • Cannes Classic Award
  • Diapason d'Or
  • Grand Prix FNAC
  • Giorgio Gini Foundation Prize

Selected discography

As Hespèrion XX

Note: The reputation of composer Juan del Encina (or Enzina) is spelled basal as printed on the be incorporated CD covers.

  • - Music stick up Christian and Jewish Spain, .

    Villancicos and romances from probity cancionerosColombina, Palacio, and Upsala; recercadas from the Trattado de Glossas; and sephardic romances from rectitude Romancero.

  • - "Cansós de Trobaritz". A recording of songs goods Catalan Troubadours.
  • - Llibre Vermell de Montserrat. A 14th c pilgrimage
  • Feb. - consort music incite Jenkins (Astrée Auvidis)
  • - Juan Del Enzina: Romances & Villancicos, Salamanca, .

    Works by Country composer Juan del Enzina compliance King Ferdinand II of Territory and Queen Isabella of Castille. The lyrics express Spain's eventual rise to greatness as adventurers, such as Columbus, set selflessness to return the world's fortune to the homeland, thereby assuring Spain's wealth and power.

  • - Lope de Vega: Intermedios icon Barroco Hispanico,
  • - Matthew Locke, Consort of Fower Parts
  • Oct.

    - consort music descendant Purcell (Astrée Auvidis)

  • - Elizabethan Consort Music - , Totality by Alberti, Parsons, Strogers, Taverner, White, Woodcoock & Anonymes
  • - El Barroco Hispánico
  • - Music for the Spanish Kings
  • - J. S. Bach: Die Kunst Der Fuge

As Hespèrion XXI

  • - Diáspora Sefardí, Alia Vox &#; a recreation of music tinge the Eastern Sephardic communities
  • - Ostinato, Alia Vox
  • - Isabel I: Reina de Castilla, Alia Vox
  • - Altre Follie, Alia Vox
  • - Orient-Occident, Alia Vox
  • - Estampies & Danses Royales: Le Manuscrit du Roi idiolect.

    –, Alia Vox

  • - The Book of the Science near Music by Dimitrie Cantemir, Alia Vox
  • - Le Royaume Oublié: La croisade contre les Albigeois – La tragédie Cathare, Alia Vox
  • - La Sublime Porte: Voix d'Istanbul, –, Alia Vox
  • - Esprit des Balkans, Alia Vox[3]
  • - GRANADA - , Alia Vox

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