Jordi Savall - Musician & Entrepreneur

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Alia Vox - A recording company on the go
A few chronological markers - 1998: Alia Vox is created. First CD issued in March 1998: - 2000: In an interview (Diapason # 467 -02/2000) Jordi Savall reports that the sales of his newly founded company amount to 200 000 discs with only 9 titles issued. - 2003: The sales now amount to 700 000 - 2005: On the eve of its 7th year, Alia Vox now has a catalogue of 40 titles The performers Leading the pack, the Saval family of course, with Jordi Savall himself, his wife Montserrat Figueras, their daughter, Arianna Savall and their son, Ferran Savall. The ensembles: Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, Le Concert des Nations Many other occasional or regular associates. Click here for an exhautive list.
Why "Alia Vox" ? For Jordi Savall, "Alia Vox means other voices and original voices in the recording business". What guides us, says Savall, are "... our personal preferences, without being systematic. We choose the works for which we have a feeling of sympathy and proximity. It is also a way to bring in the forefront the ensembles and the musicians with whow we work: Hespèrion XXI, La Capella Reial de Catalunya, my wyfe Montserrat Figueras and myself." And we could add to the list the daughter of the famous couple, Arianna Savall. Their son, Ferran, seems " to have branched out into jazz which (according to Savall) is not that far away from early music."* This is a story to be followed... In an interview on the phone with Brian Robins (Fanfare, vol. 23-1), Savall was more specific about his new involvement: "My principal motivation was freedom, something essential to an artist. Also, there was the fact that we have seen a revolution among record companies. Every year they change their artistic director and so on, and in those circumstances it is very difficult to have a clear view of the future. Auvidis (with whom Savall had recorded for some years) is now part of a multimedia company. So the artistic policy had changed, and I was already thinking that, after 30 years of record-making experience with a large range of companies, I was finally prepared to create my own label and do my own production." Savall adds that "... the first objective is to present from the repertoire we cover the most beautiful music, and give to tour audience the opportunity of discovering music and composers who are perhaps not the most interesting from the commercial point of view." Furthermore, says Savall, "... creating Alia Vox ... gives me the opportunity to control a recording in all its different aspects: repertoire, interpretation, sound." "To me it is important that even at the planning stage of a recording we are already thinking about which painting we will use, so that we can give our audience a visual idea of what the music will be like. In the era of the Internet and virtual reality I think it (is) very important that we poroduce an object that has an easthetic value, so that the owner can feel that he already has pleasure by the time he holds it in his hands." * ("Jordi Savall, une viole dans la nuit catalane", Renaut Machart, Le Monde, 13 mars 2003)

An eclectic production - Enlightened choices
The viola da gamba
Les voix humaines	La Folia (1490-1700)	Hume,Tobias (Captain) Musicall Humors (1605)

The consort of viols
Elizabethan Consort Music, Vol.I (1558-1603)	Elizabethan Consort Music, Vol. II (ca.1545 ? - 1602)	Lawes, William Consort Sets in Five & Six parts - Vol. III	Ferrabosco, Alfonso - the younger (c. 1575-1628)

The Bach connection
Die Sonaten für Viola da gamba und Cembalo	Musikalisches Opfer - L'Offrande musicale / A Musical Offering BWV 1079	Die Kunst der Fuge / L'art de la fugue/ The Art of the Fugue BWV 1080

The Parnassus of the viol
Marais, Marin Suites en mi et en si mineur, Livre II	Sainte Colombe le fils, Six Suites pour basse de viole seule

Musicas Reales
Carlos V Mille Regretz: La Canción del Emperador (1459-1558)	Alfons V el Magnànim (1396-1453

Raices & Memoria
Diáspora Sefardí

The Vivaldi connection
Farnace	La Viola da gamba in Concerto (Viole e Violoncello "all'Inglese")

Film music
Tous les matins du monde Original Motion Picture Soundtrack by Alain Corneau	Marquise Bande originale du film	Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Thematic music
La Folia (1490-1700) Diego Ortiz, A. de Cabezon, J. del Enzina, A. Marin y Coll, A. Corelli, Marin Marais	Ninna Nanna Ninna Nanna / Berceuses - Lullabies (ca. 1500-2002)	Ostinato Musique de / Music by Falconiero, Marini, Merula, Ortiz, Pachelbel, Purcell, Rossi, Valente	El Cant de la Sibil-la Malorca - Valencia (1400-1560)

Battaglie & Lamenti (1600-1660)

The Spanish repertoire
Alfons V el Magnànim La musique au temps d'Alphonse V / Music in the times of Alfons V	Carlos V Mille Regretz: La Canción del Emperador (1459-1558)	Cabanilles, Joan Battales, Tientos & Passacalles	El Cant de la Sibil-la (1400-1560) Malorca - Valencia

Vilancicos y Danzas Criollas "De la Iberia antigua al nuevo mundo" - (1550-1570)	Marin, José (1618-1699) Tonos Humanos	Lope de Vega y su tiempo (1550-1650)

The Biber connection
Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Missa Bruxellensis	Biber, Heinrich Ignaz Franz Battalia à 10 Requiem à 15 in Concerto

The French repertoire
L'Orchestre de Louis XIII (1601-1643) L'Orchestre de Louis XIII	Lully, Jean-Baptiste L'Orchestre du Roi Soleil Symphonies, Ouvertures & Airs à jouer

The associates of Alia Vox
Antonio Abete, Christine Allanic, Davide Amodio, Antoni Aragón, Maite Arruabarrena, Santi Aubert, Paul Badura-Skoda, Guido Ballestracci, Gloria Banditelli, Martín Barrera, Angelo Bartoletti, Michael Behringer, Yves Bergé, Miguel Bernal, Alfredo Bernardini, Pascal Bertin, Fulvio Bettini, Fabio Biondi, Xavier Blanch, Fabio Bonizzoni, Laurence Bonnal, Josep Borràs, Eunice Brandao, Roland Callmar, Jean-Pierre Canihac, DanieleCarnovich, Sergi Casademunt, Lydia Cevidalli, Robert Clancy, Michèle Claude, Lambert Climent, Bruno Cocset, Christophe Coin, Marta Cordomí, Yair Dalal, Imke David, Giovanni De Rosa, Beatrice Delpierre, Xavier Diaz-Latorre, Jordi Domènech, Rosa Dominguez, Lorenz Duftschmid, Driss El Malouni, Pedro Estevan, Buy Ferber, Adriana Fernández, Laura Folch, Judith Foldes, Cinzia Forte, Bernard Fourtet, Carlos García-Bernalt, Marie Garnier, Roser Garrell, Ivan Garcia, Francesc Garrigosa, Pascal Geay, Claire Giardelli, Adela González-Campa, Paolo Grazzi, Josep Maria Gregori, Jean-Yves Guerry, Luca Guglielmi, Andrew Hammerley, Jérome Hantaï, Marc Hantaï, Pierre Hantaï, Josep Hernández, Ana Huete, Edin Karamazov, Maria-Christina Kiehr, Taka Kitazato, Regula Konrad, Ton Koopman, Manfredo Kraemer, Antoine Ladrette, Daniel Lassalle, Andrew Lawrence-King, Detmar Leertower, Stefan Legée, Rolf Lislevand, Mauro Lopes, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Balazs Mate, Pedro Memelsdorff, Carlos Mena, Sara Mingardo, Silvia Mondino, Richard Myron, Begoña Olavide, Paolo Pandolfo, Philippe Pierlot, Alessandro Pique, Hélène Plouffe, Alexandrina Polo, Marcel Ponseele, Sonia Prina, Dimitris Psonis, Xavier Puertas, Juan Manuel Quintana, Jordi Ricart, Alba Roca, Sandra Roset, David Sagastume, Xavier Sans, Letizia Scherrer, Isabel Serrano, Frank Theuns, Pablo Valetti, Ann Vanlancker, Marisa Vila, Lluís Vilamajó, Sophie Watillon, Furio Zanasi,
Cliquez l'un ou l'autre thème ci-dessous pour continuer en français. Jordi Savall en 5 thèmes: 1) Savall - le violiste 2) Savall - le chef 3) Savall - l'entrepreneur 4) Savall - l'humaniste 5) Savall - pédagogue et chef de file		Click either theme below to continue with the English version. Jordi Savall under 5 themes: 1) Savall - as violist 2) Savall - as conductor 3) Savall - as entrepreneur 4) Savall - as a humanist 5) Savall - as a pedagogue and figurehead