Program

Hespèrion XXI

Arianna Savall            singer, Gothic & triple harp
Ferran Savall              singer, theorbo & guitar
Jordi Savall                lira de arco, viola da gamba, director
Driss El Maloumi         singer & oud
Dimitri Psonis             santur & morisca
Pedro Estevan            percussion

Hespèrion XXI’s featured vocalist Montserrat Figueras has had to withdraw from the group’s Musica Viva Australia tour for health reasons. This decision is of great regret to Ms Figueras as she was very much looking forward to returning to Australia.

Hespèrion XXI’s director Jordi Savall has personally curated amended programs for the tour, which showcase the extraordinary musicality of the group's members – Jordi, his children and three long-standing musical colleagues. The music is substantively the same as listed in the Concert Guide, though the order has changed and new works added from the same musical traditions and cultures.

The music featured in these two programs, Du temps & de l’instant (Moments in Time and in Dialogue) and Orient-Occident (A dialogue of souls), covers a wide spectrum, from the medieval world to the present. Geographically it is also wide-ranging, as it juxtaposes works from the traditional art-music repertoire of Western Europe (represented by music from Spain, France, Italy and England), with the European, Middle Eastern and Eastern folk music traditions. Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI are committed to trying to bring dialogue and understanding between East and West through music, highlighting similarities and influences where they may be quite unexpected. The repertoire in each of these two programs emphasises the importance of this inter-cultural dialogue. It attempts to map out paths of continuity between Eastern and Western music, between cultivated and popular works passed down primarily through oral tradition, between ancient and contemporary music, different generations of performers, and also between performers and their audiences.


Program One:
Du temps & de l’instant
Moments in Time and in Dialogue
(Canberra, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney 7pm)

Please hold applause until the end of each section.
The program will run approximately 120 minutes including interval.

Marin Marais (1656–1728)
Two Musettes (Pièces de viole Book IV nos 28 and 29)
Traditional Persian
Apreciemos el instante (arranged Arianna Savall)
Instrumental improvisation
Traditional Israeli
Noumi, noumi yaldatii (Hush now, go to sleep)

Traditional Breton
O soñjal – Gwerz
(variations by Jordi Savall)
Traditional Catalan
La Cançó del lladre (The song of the thief)
(arranged by Ferran Savall)
Diego Ortiz (1510–1570)
Romanesca
Passamezzo
Arianna Savall (born 1972)
La Salve

African ostinato improvisation
Traditional Spanish improvisation on Canarios
Traditional Egyptian
Marinero soy de amor
Yo me’enamori

INTERVAL

after Lucas Ruiz de Ribayaz (b 1626)
Tarantella
Ferran Savall (born 1979)
Jaroslaw
Traditional Moroccan
Berceuse Amazigh (Berber lullaby)
Tobias Hume (c 1579–1645)
Musicall Humors (selection)
Traditional Catalan
El Mariner (The sailor)
(improvisation by Arianna Savall and Ferran Savall)

Traditional Iranian
Chahamezrab
Traditional Afghani
Nastaran – Nagma (instrumental)

Dialogue of songs
Traditional Moroccan
Ghazali tal jàhri
Traditional Greek
Apo xeno meros (From a strange and far-off land)
Traditional Rhodes
Duerme, duerme hermosa donzella (Sleep, sleep, fair maiden)
Traditional Turkish
Üsküdar (instrumental)


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Program Two:
Orient-Occident
(A dialogue of souls)
(Perth, Sydney 8pm)

Please hold applause until the end of each section.
The program will run approximately 120 minutes including interval.

Traditional Spanish
Alba
Traditional Moroccan
Ritual Dance
Thirteenth-century Spanish
Rosa das rosas (from Alfonso X’s Cantigas de Santa Maria)
Marcabru (flourished 1130-1150, French troubadour)
Pax in nomine Domini
Traditional Spanish/Moroccan
Dialogue

Traditional Bosnian
Paxarico tu te llamas
Fourteenth-century Spanish
Polorum Regina (Queen of heaven)

Traditional Moroccan
Danse de l’âme (Dance of the soul)
(arranged by Driss El Maloumi)
Traditional Catalan
Mireu el nostre mar
(arranged M Forcano and Ferran Savall)
Traditional Turkish
Rast “Murass’a”
Traditional Israeli
Noumi, noumi yaldatii (Hush now, go to sleep)

INTERVAL

Traditional Iranian
Chahamezrab
Traditional Persian
Apreciemos el instante (arranged Arianna Savall)
Traditional Israeli
Hermoza muchachica (instrumental)
Traditional Catalan
A la vora de la mar
(arranged Arianna Savall and Ferran Savall)

Fourteenth-century Italian
Lamento de Tristano (Tristan’s lament)
Traditional African
Ritual Dance (improvisation)
Traditional Afghani
Nagma (instrumental)
Traditional Egyptian
Marinero soy de amor
Yo me’enamori


To download a copy of the program, please click here.