Since you are interested in Mare Nostrum [2 SACDs plus large book], here is a list of other items that you may find interesting.
CORELLI / PLAYFORD / VIVALDI ETC.
Altre Follie (music from 1500 - 1750) Hesperion XXI; Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 16/Jan/2006 ] A sequel to their acclaimed disc of variations on "La Folie" this disc presents responses to the form and rhythms of the "folie" by different composers up to the mid 18th century. Like all Alia Vox productions, it comes in a beautifully presented... |
CHRISTOPHORUS COLUMBUS
Christophorus Columbus - Lost Paradises (2 SACDs with large book) Monserrat Figueras / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 5/Apr/2007 ] Jordi Savall offers an unique journey through the Christian, Jewish and Muslim musical traditions in relationship with texts by or about Columbus and his time. |
MILAN / ENZINA / MUDARRA / GABRIEL / PISADOR / VASQUEZ / etc
Don Quijote de la Mancha Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 12/Feb/2006 ] "Jordi Savall occupies a special place among musicians – and not only early music specialists. As he has proven in a superb discography that ranges from 15th-century Spain to Bach and Handel, he shifts between various musical and cultural languages... |
HARMONIE UNIVERSELLE
Harmonie Universelle - the best of Jordi Savall Jordi Savall with Montserrat Figueras, Hesperion XXI, La Concert des Nations [ Alia Vox / CD - released 5/Aug/2001 ] One of the best complilations of 17th Century Spanish music....ever!! |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Harmonie Universelle - the best of Jordi Savall (Vol 2) Jordi Savall with Montserrat Figueras, Hesperion XXI, La Concert des Nations [ Alia Vox / CD - released 16/Apr/2007 ] Jordi Savall is widely credited with the rebirth of the viola da gamba, an instrument which has been all but ignored since the late 17th century - the period of its greatest exponents, François Couperin, Marin Marais and Antoine Forqueray. Savall's... |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Hispania and Japan: Dialogues (special Japanese folding screen edition) Hesperion XXI / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 23/Aug/2011 ] Following the catastrophes in Japan, Jordi Savall decided to release this special tribute album in which the most significant pieces of the dialogue between Spain and Japan are gathered. |
TRADITIONAL
Istanbul - Dimitrie Cantemir: "The Book of Science of Music" and the Sephardic and Armenian Traditions Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2009 ] "…Savall… has… put together a brilliant showcase of both Cantemir's music and the musics he chronicled… for me… the high points of this CD lie… in the solo improvisations on te oud, lira, and kanun zither, and above all in the pieces involving the... |
JERUSALEM
Jerusalem: La Ville des deux Paix (2 SACDs with large book) Montserrat Figueras, Andrew Lawrence-King / Hesperion XXI / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 CD Box Set - released 2/Feb/2009 ] "A bewildering voyage in time and space is buoyed up by beautiful sound." Editor's Choice - Gramophone April 2009 |
CORELLI / MARAIS / MARTIN Y COLL / ENZINA / etc
La Folia (music from 1490-1701) Hesperion XXI; Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Apr/2003 ] "This CD easily bears exposure to the "Repeat All" button, and like all Alia Vox productions, it comes in a beautifully presented card case containing a booklet with full notes in the major European languages." (Amazon) - On Hybrid Super Audio CD... |
FRANCISCO JAVIER
La Ruta de Oriente (The Route to the Orient) (2 SACDs with large book) Montserrat Figueras / Hesperion XXI / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 CD/Book - released 1/Jan/2008 ] "Savall's forces perform beautifully in a missionary life-to-death journey" (Gramophone January 2008) |
TRADITIONAL
La Sublime Porte: Voices of Istanbul Gursoy Dincer, Lior Elmaleh & Montserrat Figueras / Hesperion XXI, Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 1/Dec/2011 ] "The ensemble offers authentic recreations of Turkish, Greek, Armenian and Sephardic pieces, told in textures and timbres of oud, duduk, ney and Savall's own rebab. This is music of great subtlety, technical accomplishment and powerful emotional... |
TRADITIONAL
Ludi Musici: The Spirit of Dance 1450 - 1650 Montserrat Figueras / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Le Concert des Nations / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Dec/2008 ] "Life-affirming music, exuberant yet elegant, given spirited, technically-brilliant, richly-textured realisations: five stars it is." BBC Music Magazine, February 2008 ***** |
CARLOS V
Mille Regretz: La Cancion del Emperador La Capella Reyal de Catalunya; Hesperion XXI; Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / Hybrid SACD - released 10/Apr/2003 ] "this is as imaginative and beautiful as anything Savall has ever done" (Amazon)- On Hybrid Super Audio CD (SACD) format, presented in full 5.1 surround sound! PLAYABLE ON ANY CD SYSTEM |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Ministriles reales Hesparion XX / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox SACD / 2 Hybrid SACD - released 10/Mar/2009 ] This beautiful set gathers for the first time Spanish and French instrumental dances from the XVIth and XVIIth Centuries scattered as 'interludes' in many Astrée and Alia Vox existing releases. It is a definitive overview of this repertoire and... |
TRADITIONAL
Ninna Nanna: Lullabies; Berceuses; Wiegenlieder; Nanas Montserrat Figueras; Hesperion XXI; Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 10/Mar/2003 ] "Montserrat Figueras sings them beautifully in dark, rich, haunting soprano." (New York Times) |
PURCELL / ORTIZ / PACHELBEL / ROSSI / MERULA
Ostinato Hesperion Xxi / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Feb/2002 ] "An enjoyably varied compendium performed with characteristic Savallian vim and vitality." Editor's Choice - Gramophone Magazine March 2002 |
ANTHONY HOLBORNE
The Teares of the Muses 1599 - Elizabethan Consort Music Vol. 2 Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Jan/2001 ] Hespèrion XXI, Jordi Savall |
VARIOUS COMPOSERS
Villancicos y Danzas Criollas: Iberian, African and New World music from the 15th and 16th centuries. La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hesperion XXI / Jordi Savall [ Alia Vox / CD - released 1/Jan/2004 ] "the supreme exponent of French viol playing." Gramophone |