JORDI SAVALL & LE CONCERT DES NATIONS – Les Fêtes Royales in Baroque Versailles | Fvll concert (2022)

Jordi Savall (born 1 August 1941) is a Spanish conductor, composer and viol player. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for popularizing the viol family of instruments (notably the viola da gamba) in contemporary performance and recording. As a historian of early music his repertoire features everything from medieval, Renaissance and Baroque through to the Classical and Romantic periods. He has incorporated non-western musical traditions in his work; including African vernacular music for a documentary on slavery.

Le Concert des Nations is an orchestra using period instruments, which performs the orchestral and symphonic repertoire from the Baroque to Romanticism: 1600 – 1900. The orchestra was created in 1989, the youngest of the groups conducted by the Catalan maestro and viola da gamba virtuoso Jordi Savall. Wikipedia

Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations at Boston Early Music Festival 2022 perform “Les Fêtes Royales in Baroque Versailles,” a selection of French baroque pieces.

0:00 Introduction 1:15 Concert donné à Louis XIII en 1627 16:12 Mr. de Sainte-Colombe, le père – Le Retour 25:00 Marin Marais – Pièces de Viole 36:00 François Couperin – Troisième Concert Royal 54:17 Jean-Philippe Rameau – Pièces de Clavecin en Concerts 57:30 Jean-Marie Leclair – Sonate VIII à trois 1:09:33 Bourrée d’Avignonez 1:15:39 Jean-Baptiste Lully – Marche pour la cérémonie turque, Chaconne des Scaramouches

Violin: Manfredo Kraemer Flute: Charles Zebley Viol: Philippe Pierlot Theorbo: Rolf Lislevand Harpsichord: Marco Vitale Viol & Director: Jordi Savall