Jordi Savall

西班牙大提琴家、維奧爾琴演奏家、指揮。1941年出生于巴塞羅那(Barcelona)。六歲開始學習音樂。1959-1965年在巴塞羅那音樂學院學習大提琴。此后放棄大提琴，改學早期音樂，1968年在瑞士巴塞爾（Basel）的知名早期音樂學府 Schola Cantorum Basiliensis ，隨溫辛格（August Wenziger）學習低音維奧爾琴（Viola da Gamba）。1970年畢業，成為獨奏藝術家，并開始錄制唱片。1973年繼他的老師溫辛格成為母校的教授。1974年，他與他的妻子、女高音歌唱家菲格拉斯（Montserrat Figueras）以及其他一些朋友，共同創建了樂隊 Hespérion XX，專門演奏中世紀、文藝復興時期及巴洛克時期的音樂作品，受到音樂界高度評價。在瑞士生活了20年后，他于1987年回到巴塞羅那，創建了 La Capella Reial de Catalunya 樂團，一支專注于1800年以前聲樂作品的樂團。1989年，他又創建了巴洛克和古典樂團國家協奏團（Le Concert des Nations）。 　　薩瓦利是公認的優秀低音維奧爾琴的演奏家和早期音樂闡釋者。他以極大的熱情投入音樂會演奏和指揮，錄制過100多張唱片，獲得過許多大獎。1988年，他被法國文化部指定為文化藝術獎（Ordre des Arts et des Lettres）的負責人。 Jordi Savall is among the leading instrumentalists and conductors of the European early music scene, specializing in Renaissance and Medieval music. He began studying music when he was six, learning cello and pursuing that instrument at the Barcelona Conservatory. He took an interest in early music, and began learning the viola da gamba. Savall also gained proficiency in the various members of the viola family. He studied the gamba and early music research and practice with Wieland Kuijken in Brussels and August Wenziger at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, obtaining a diploma as soloist and professor in 1970. In 1973 he succeeded to Wenziger's position. In 1968 Savall married the soprano Montserrat Figueras, who shared his interest in early music. With Figueras and other musicians interested in early Spanish music, he founded in 1974 the ensemble Hespèrion XX. The ensemble took its name from an ancient name for the western European region from Italy to Iberia; Hespèrion was also a name for Venus as the Evening Star (in which aspect it appears only in the western skies). Savall and Hespèrion XX quickly became well known in early music circles. They created a unique sound through the use of viols and other Medieval instruments such as the psaltery, wooden flutes, Moroccan drums, and the Afghan rebec (a double reed ancestor of the oboe). All these instrument are known to have been used by Medieval musicians, particularly in the Mediterranean region. Savall became internationally known through his playing on the soundtrack of Alain Corneau's film Tous les Matins du Monde (All the Mornings of the World), concerning the French viol players of the Baroque era. Savall has extended his area of musical interest into the Baroque, leading performances of Orfeo by Monteverdi and Il burbero de Buion Cuore by Martin y Soler, and in the late 1990s conducted Beethoven's "Eroica" Symphony with Les Concerts des Nations (a group he founded in 1989 for Baroque music), winning praise for his well-researched and groundbreaking interpretation. He also founded Le Capella Reial de Catalunya in 1987, an ensemble of instrumentalists and vocal soloists. Savall has recorded around 100 releases. To 1996, most of Savall's recordings appeared on the Astrée Auvidis label, but this legacy became part of Naïve after Astrée was sold to them in 2001. In 1996, Savall introduced his own AliaVox label with a disc of Juan Cabanilles that has served as the platform for his recordings ever since. Savall has also taken advantage of his celebrity through traveling as a touring artist throughout the world with all three of his actively performing groups. 更多>>