The surprising thing about the arresting medieval Spanish music program (“Diaspora Sefardi: Roots and Memory”) Thursday in Founders Hall at the Orange County Performing Arts Center is how contemporary ...

Like the soon-to-open Renaissance galleries it was conceived to celebrate, Wednesday's program by Jordi Savall and his Hesperion XXI at the Cleveland Museum of Art was a trove of delicate, detailed ...

A few centuries later, Dimitrie Cantemir could have been a world music pioneer. As it was, born in 1673, he had to settle for being Prince of Moldavia. But while in Istanbul, as diplomat-cum-hostage, ...

The music heard Friday night at the Early Music Guild’s concert at Town Hall Seattle, from Hispanic composers of the Old World and the New, covered a wide time span. It stretched from 1510, when Diego ...

Music Worcester will present early music icon Jordi Savall in a concert titled A World of Emotions: Musical discoveries from the old and the new world (1100-1780) at Mechanics Hall on April 11. Savall ...

Over 50 years ago, Jordi Savall put aside his cello to start learning a new instrument: the viola da gamba. "Everyone thought I was mad", he says. But if the phenomenal success of Hespèrion XX (and ...

Apparently our children think yoghurt grows on trees, so they are probably some distance from knowing that the product originally came from Turkey. The systematic debasement of Muslim culture - of the ...

Tom Manoff reviews a new CD of lullabies by Hesperion XXI. This gorgeous CD is filled with lovely playing by this early music ensemble. What makes this CD even more lovely is the singing of Montserrat ...

What image pops into your head when you think of “classical music”? An orchestra, right? Playing a symphony— a composition without any singers. However, from the beginnings of the classical tradition ...

The once constricted world of Western early music has opened to new — O.K., old — and exotic vistas in recent years as it explores the fertile ground it shares with Eastern, especially Middle Eastern, ...