Jordi Savall & Le Concert des Nations A Zeneakadémia saját szervezésű programja

“I think that music is not an archaeological feature. Naturally, all music has its history, but these works are also living today. It is possible that in a historical sense we play early music, but all music is contemporary if it is played by contemporaries.” These words come from a Budapest interview with living legend Jordi Savall, Catalonian viol player and conductor and leading light in early music performance practice. His repertoire spans medieval and Renaissance tradition right up to the early 19th century, and although he has been to Budapest on several occasions, a Hungarian audience has never heard him play Bach live. Savall and his ensemble, Le Concerts des Nations, released Bach’s enigmatic late masterpiece Musikalisches Opfer in 2001, and this recording has since become a point of reference. Composed in 1747, Prussian ruler Frederick the Great gave Bach the theme for the piece when the elderly genius visited Berlin (where his son was court harpsichordist). He improvised on the theme and on return home he wrote complex canons, polyphonic ricercars and a large-scale sonata to the royal melody.