Concerts
Jordi Savall & Hespèrion XXI – eine neue musikalische Sprache
Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI journey from troubadours and early European dances to the New World, presenting music as a living language that carries memory and tradition across generations.
Xavier Díaz-Latorre, guitar & theorbo
Andrew Lawrence-King, Spanish Baroque harp
David Mayoral, bells & percussion
Jordi Savall, treble viol & conductor
Jordi Savall, one of the most significant musicians of our time and a recent recipient of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, will be performing a program curated specifically for Interfinity. Building on this year’s festival theme of “Language,” he—together with his world-class ensemble Hespèrion XXI—focuses on music that has been passed down from generation to generation for centuries. His work combines historical tradition with vibrant musical practice, allowing early music to be reborn time and again.
This transmission is particularly audible in folk music: melodies, rhythms, and playing styles were often not recorded in writing but preserved, altered, and passed on through collective music-making—much like a spoken language.
Savall’s concert thus addresses a central question of the festival: How do language and culture remain alive across generations? Here, music becomes a vehicle for memory and collective experience—not as something statically preserved, but as a tradition that changes and renews itself with each passing on.
From Old Europe to the New World – Program:
Songs and Dances of Troubadours and Pilgrims
Marcabru – Pax! In nomine Domini!
Alfonso X the Wise – Istampitta & Saltarello
Variation and Improvisation
Anonymous – Folías
Anonymous – Canarios
Anonymous – La Romanesca
Baroque Dances and Variations
Francesc Guerau – Españoletas, Jácaras & Canarios
Santiago de Murcia – Gaita
Ancient Basque and Galician Traditions
Anonymous / Jordi Savall – Aurtxo txikia negarrez
From Europe to the New World
Anonymous, Codex Trujillo del Perú – Tonada del Chimo
Anonymous – Folías criollas: Cachua serranita
Concert duration: between 75 and 90 minutes
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.
Andrew Lawrence-King, Spanish Baroque harp
David Mayoral, bells & percussion
Jordi Savall, treble viol & conductor
Jordi Savall, one of the most significant musicians of our time and a recent recipient of the Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, will be performing a program curated specifically for Interfinity. Building on this year’s festival theme of “Language,” he—together with his world-class ensemble Hespèrion XXI—focuses on music that has been passed down from generation to generation for centuries. His work combines historical tradition with vibrant musical practice, allowing early music to be reborn time and again.
This transmission is particularly audible in folk music: melodies, rhythms, and playing styles were often not recorded in writing but preserved, altered, and passed on through collective music-making—much like a spoken language.
Savall’s concert thus addresses a central question of the festival: How do language and culture remain alive across generations? Here, music becomes a vehicle for memory and collective experience—not as something statically preserved, but as a tradition that changes and renews itself with each passing on.
From Old Europe to the New World – Program:
Songs and Dances of Troubadours and Pilgrims
Marcabru – Pax! In nomine Domini!
Alfonso X the Wise – Istampitta & Saltarello
Variation and Improvisation
Anonymous – Folías
Anonymous – Canarios
Anonymous – La Romanesca
Baroque Dances and Variations
Francesc Guerau – Españoletas, Jácaras & Canarios
Santiago de Murcia – Gaita
Ancient Basque and Galician Traditions
Anonymous / Jordi Savall – Aurtxo txikia negarrez
From Europe to the New World
Anonymous, Codex Trujillo del Perú – Tonada del Chimo
Anonymous – Folías criollas: Cachua serranita
Concert duration: between 75 and 90 minutes
Note: This text was translated by machine translation software and not by a human translator. It may contain translation errors.