Series about and with Catalan gambist and conductor Jordi Savall.
Part 69.
This episode is about a recent issue of Savall, the double CD "Guerre et Paix 1614-1714" with compositions on the themes of war and peace. In this episode we focus on the baroque works, like Te Deum by Charpentier and Jubilate Deo by Händel.
The CD is accompanied by a nearly 400-page booklet containing a historical background of the 17th century, which was marked in Europe by war, conflict, crisis, peace and eventually reconciliation. This gives a representative and historical image of this period in Europe with its conflicts and wars.
Through musical examples Savall shows us how the 17th century was a concatenation of a long sad series of wars and strife between people and ethnic groups in Europe.
Marc Antoine Charpentier (1643-1704)
1. Te Deum
– Prélude
– Te Deum Laudamus
– Te aeternum patrem
– Pleni sunt caeli
Heinrich Ignaz Franz von Biber (1644-1704)
2. Batailla à 10
– Sonata
– Die Schlacht
Anonymous traditional / Jordi Savall
3. Cant dels Aucells quant arribbaren los Vaixells
Georg Muffat (1653-1704)
4. Florilegium II, Chaconne de la Suite IV « Impatientia »
Mss. D. Cantemir (324)
5. Der makām-ı Uzzäl Sakîl «Turna» Semâ’î
Vasili Titov (ca. 1650-ca. 1715)
6. Beznevéstnaya Dévo (O Virgo)
Joan Cabanilles – Johann Caspar Kerll (1627-1693)
7. Batalla Imperial
Jordi Savall after a traditional Catalan melody
8. Catalunya en altre temps
Georg Friedrich Handel (1685-1759)
9. Jubilate Deo / O be Joyful (HWV 279)
– O be Joyful in the Lord
– Serve the Lord with gladness
– Be ye sure that that the Lord he is God
– O go your way into his gates
– For the Lord is gracious
– Glory by to the Father
– As it was in the beginning
La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations, Hespèrion XXI conducted by Jordi Savall
(CD Guerre & Paix 1614-1714, AVSA 9908)
