The eighty-year-old Catalan gambist, conductor and concert organiser, one of the biggest icons in early music, has finally been invited to make his debut with the Concertgebouw orchestra on April 26.
(Happily, he accepted.)
He will conduct works by Bach, Handel, Rameau and Geminiani.
We’ve been given to understand that tonight’s Lebrecht…
Pablo Casals conducts a gloriously old-fashioned 1971 performance…
From the last Lebrecht Album of the Week…
Message received: January 24th marks the 50th anniversary…
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Canadian, not Quebecer. US-American, not Hawaiian. German, not Bavarian. Austrian, not Styrian. Spanish, not Catalan
Well, that’s part of the Catalan nationalist propaganda that is being “sold” around the world…
Indeed. The Catalan nationalist propaganda is really strong in other countries, selling a fake story of oppression and a distorted version of Catalonia’s history. People without a good understanding of Spanish history and the realities of Spain buy that tale, because who doesn’t like a good history about people fighting for “freedom”???
Oh, please…
. . . and Soviet, not Armenian. Don’t be so shy.
Sorry, that is Canadian *and* Québécois, Catalan *and* Spanish, Scottish *and* British, etc. National identities are not exclusive, but overlapping.
Ask him about it, but perhaps not in Spanish. He’ll be the first to tell you that he is Catalan, notwithstanding your colonialist nationalism and whether you like it or not.
Catalan! (Jordi).
Not to a lot of Catalans, I suspect.
In any case, that’s a show I’d like to see.
Stupid, not smart. Dark,not light. Fantasy, not reality. Imposed, not consensual. Caged, not free.
Perhaps you also object to Ukrainian vs Russian? Self-determination is a thing.
I believe he grew up in Barcelona and identifies with Catalonia, not Spain, Hispa-vox.
… and Catalonia, and Barcelona, is an autonomous region of…???? And his passport says….????
You forgot “nazi, not vox”
This is one of the worst, and most inappropriate comments I have ever read on SD. Congratulations, Lamadreqetepari0.
Thank you
Vox is a extreme right party in Spain. Please, don’t vote him positiv. By the way, I’m catalan, european and also spanish.
I think he’s from Catalunya. So he’s a Catalan. I am from the Kingdom of Wessex, which is not in “uk”.
Unlike the information that Jordi Savall will finally make his debut with the Concertgebouw Orchestra, does not mean that the gambist and his former Hesperion XX and XXI played in the Concertgebouw, viz. in 1993 and in 2008.
First and foremost a great musician who has made a superlative mark on the music world. I count his and Hesperion’s recording of Purcell’s Fantasias as one of my most treasured CDs.