SACD, Alia Vox (label)
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Beethoven Révolution Vol. II
RecommendedSymphonies 6 to 9
Sara Gouzy (soprano), Salome Fischer (alto), Mingjie Lei (tenor), Manuel Walser (baritone), Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
The performances were evolved over a series of ‘academies’ interrogating every aspect of the score. His interpretive decisions nonetheless feel organic rather than didactic…the finale of the... —
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Gramophone Magazine, February 2022, Recording of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2022, Finalist - Orchestral
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Building a Library, December 2022, Also Recommended - Beethoven 9
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Venezia Millenaria (Venice 700-1797)
2 x SACD and book
Le Concert des Nations - Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya - Panagiotis, Neochoritis, Jordi Savall
Venezia Millenaria is as kaleidoscopic as the city itself, Venice’s trademark cosmopolitanism reflected in Savall’s augmenting of his home team(s) with Ensemble Panagiotis Neochoritis, and an... —
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Presto Editor's Choice, December 2017
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Gramophone Magazine, April 2018, Editor's Choice
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Record Review, 3rd March 2018, Recording of the Week
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There’s real musicality here at the service of imaginative phrasing, with just enough added force to keep everything animated. A “Great” Symphony without longueurs is rare but this is one. —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2022, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2023, Nominated - Symphonic Music
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Mozart Requiem
Rachel Redmond (soprano), Marianne Beate Kielland (mezzo-soprano), Mingjie Lei (tenor), Manuel Walser (bass), Le Concert Des Nations, La Cappela Nacional de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
A deep sense of urgency and inevitability characterises a thoroughly unsentimental account in which dry, clipped strings contrast with a richly powerful chorus. —
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Record Review, 13th May 2023, Record of the Week
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International Classical Music Awards, 2024, Nominated - Choral
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Mozart : Great Mass in C Minor
Giulia Bolcato (soprano), Elionor Martínez (soprano), David Fischer (tenor), Matthias Winckhler (bass-baritone), Le Concert des Nations, La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Jordi Savall
This is a thoughtful account of a complex, fragmented score. Savall and Guglielmi have prioritised the work's spiritual sincerity while preserving its grandeur, bringing a satisfying coherence... —
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BBC Music Magazine, March 2026, Choral Choice
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Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Lina Johnson (soprano), Olivia Vermeulen (mezzo-soprano), Martin Platz (tenor), Manuel Walser (bass), La Capella Nacional de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
Vibrato and coloration of voices, solo and choral, are especially well matched with each other and with the instrumental resources. —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2023, Editor's Choice
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Choral
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Vivaldi, Le Quattro Stagioni & Concerti d'Ll Cimento Dell'armonia E Dell'invenzione
Alfia Bakieva, Bianca Riesner, Catalina Reus, Ángela Moro, Miren Zeberio, Marguerite Wassermann, Les Musiciennes du Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
Album-wide, the musicians themselves serve up an attractively lightly buoyant, silvery-sounding, refined sound whose continuo combination of lute, chitaronne and harpsichord has at times an... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2025, Nominated - Baroque Instrumental
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Mozart: Serenades, Notturno in D major & Ein musikalischer Spass
RecommendedLe Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
Savall sets some brisk tempos, particularly for the slow movement of Eine kleine Nachtmusik, but they're convincing. …it's vivid playing from everyone, well defined in outline and responding... —
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Penguin Guide, Rosette
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Vivaldi: Juditha Triumphans
Marianne Beate Kielland (Judith), Rachel Redmond (Vagaus), Marina de Liso (Holopherne), Lucía Martín-Cartón (Abra), Kristin Mulders (Ozias)
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Jordi Savall
Jordi Savall eats this kind of thing for breakfast and marshals his forces with military efficiency – except the performance is looser and more spontaneous than that sounds, and riveting from... —
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International Classical Music Awards, 2019, Nominee - Assorted Program
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Maestros Del Siglo De Oro
RecommendedMasters From The Golden Century
Jordi Savall
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Hespèrion XX
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Building a Library, May 2011, Featured
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