Wigmore Hall 125: Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI

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As part of Wigmore Hall's 125th Anniversary Festival, the early music specialist Jordi Savall presents a specially recorded concert of music by Monteverdi and his contemporaries. Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI have been an important part of the early music world for over half a century. Their festive concert places instrumental consort pieces from Elizabethan and Jacobean England together with pioneering compositions from the aristocratic courts of Italy and Germany, culminating in a performance of Monteverdi's stylised pastoral drama about the lovers Tirsi and Clori. Also in today's Classical Live, Mark Forrest introduces a recent performance from Salzburg from today's featured conductor, Finnish musician Klaus Mäkelä, of powerful music by Mahler: the 5th Symphony, which includes the celebrated Adagietto, written as love letter to his wife Alma; and there's more from star harpsichordist Jean Rondeau in France, with his own take on keyboard music from the French Baroque. WIGMORE HALL – 125 'THE TEARS AND FIRE OF THE MUSES, CLAUDIO MONTEVERDI REVOLUTION’ Jordi Savall (viola da gamba/director) Hespèrion XXI Soloists of La Capella Reial de Catalunya Samuel Scheidt: Paduan V / Courant Dolorosa IX Claudio Monteverdi: Lamento d’Arianna John Dowland: Lachrimae Antiquae Anthony Holborne: The Teares of the Muses Claudio Monteverdi: Sestina: Lagrime d’amante al sepolcro dell’amata John Dowland: Lachrimae Gementes / The Earl of Essex Galliard Claudio Monteverdi: Qui rise, o Tirsi John Dowland: Semper Dowland semper dolens Giacomo Gorzanis: La barca d'amore Claudio Monteverdi: Tirsi e Clori Introduced by Martin Handley ***** c1430 Presented by Mark Forrest Gustav Mahler Symphony No. 5 in C# minor Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra Klaus Mäkelä (conductor) François Couperin Improvisation on Prelude in C (from 'L’Art de toucher le clavecin’) Jean Rondeau (harpsichord)