Fantasies, Battles and Dances at Maison symphonique, Nov. 7

Jordi Savall to perform The Golden Age of Consort Music (1500 – 1750)

Jordi Savall is a brilliant and
charismatic musician 
Photo: David Ignaszewski

Local concert producer Traquen’Art is happy to bring Jordi Savall back to Montreal as part of his much-anticipated return to North America. Savall and his baroque ensemble Hespèrion XXI will perform on November 7 at the Maison symphonique de Montréal for a musical incursion into the richness of the Renaissance, a key musical period for the emergence of the viola de gamba and the viola consort.^.  (A consort of instruments was a phrase used in England during the 16th and 17th centuries to indicate an instrumental ensemble. These could be of the same or a variety of instruments. It can be used today to designate certain types of formations practicing an aspect of early music up to baroque music.)

Jordi Savall is Immensely popular with Montreal, Quebec City and Ottawa audiences. Savall and his ensemble will perform a European program entitled Fantasies, Battles and Dances – The Golden Age of Consort Music (1500 – 1750). This is a collection of works by fifteen important composers from the Renaissance and the Baroque periods.

Composers in alphabetical order: Innociento Alberti, Johann Sebastian Bach, Joan Cabanilles, Antonio de Cabezón, John Dowland, Alfonso Ferrabosco, Orlando Gibbons, Giuseppe Guami, John Jenkins, William Lawes, Giovanni Maria, Henry Pucell, Samuel Scheidt, Christopher Tye and by Clement Woodcock.

Tickets for the Montreal concert on November 7 are now on sale: www.placedesarts.com or by phone: 514-842-2112 or toll free: 1-877-642-6040. The concerts will also take place in Quebec City and Ottawa.