The Hammock Papers: Savall

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23 June 2026

29 April 2026

27 November 2025

Telemann, Tafelmusik

Jordi Savall leads The Georgian Sinfonietta in a performance of the Suite in B-Major (TWV 55:B 1) ...

03 July 2025

Beethoven, Symphony No. 6 in F Major, Op. 68, “Pastoral"

Le Concert des Nations performs under the baton of Jordi Savall ...

30 June 2025

23 March 2025

Savall.

Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI perform a program of music from the European Renaissance and Baroque ...

25 January 2025

Savall.

Jordi Savall and his orchestra, Le Concert des Nations, perform a program of baroque music by Corelli, Rameau, and Telemann.

Fiddle player Enrico Onofri is featured ...

11 January 2025

Beethoven, Symphony No. 7 in A major, Op. 92

Jordi Savall conducts Le Concert des Nations ...

29 September 2024

09 August 2024

28 January 2023

Lully, Jubilate Deo

Jordi Savall conducts Le Concert des Nations ...

24 November 2022

Telemann, Tafelmuzik

Jordi Savall conducts the Tbilisi State Chamber Orchestra Georgian Sinfonietta in a performance of the Ouverture-Suite, TWV 55:B1 ...

10 November 2022

Happy Birthday, Couperin

Unknown, François Couperin, c. 1733

François Couperin was born on this day in 1668.

Jordi Savall and his band of outlaws perform a selection from Frankie's suites, Les Concerts Royaux ...

01 October 2022

Marais, Suitte d’un Gôut Etranger, de Pièces de Viole, IV Livre

Jordi Savall plays "La Rêveuse" ...

09 June 2021

Rameau, Orages et tonnerres

Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations perform ...

23 May 2021

Jordi Savall, Bal-Kan: Honey and Blood: Music in the Ottoman Empire

Carnegie Hall has made the following performance available until May 31, 2021 ...

Delve into a journey created by Jordi Savall, who has “what could be the broadest vision among any musicians today of how cultures connect and the historical significance of that for a modern, changing world” (Los Angeles Times). From the reign of the Ottoman Turks to the political divisions of the 20th century, Savall calls the Balkans “at one and the same time a rich meeting point and the theater of dramatic confrontations.” Experience the extraordinarily diverse cultural traditions that adapted and flourished during the Ottoman Empire’s regime.

13 March 2021

Jordi Savall, "El Refugio de la Memoria"

07 February 2021

In 1991, the film Tous les Matins du Monde brought early music unprecedented popularity overnight. Three decades later, Jordi Savall, whose contribution was essential to the film’s success, pays homage to the film’s authors, Alain Corneau and Pascal Quignard.

A concert Jordi Savall performed with Le Concert des Nations this past Wednesday ...

17 January 2021

Charpentier, Messe et Motets pour la Vierge

Jordi Savall and Le Concert des Nations perform ...

28 November 2020

Happy Birthday, Lully

Roullet, Lully, 1693

Jean-Baptiste Lully was born on this day in 1632.

Jubilate Deo performed by Jordi Savall and La Capella Reial de Catalunya ...

BARRY HINES

"That's why it makes me mad when I take her out and I'll hear somebody say, 'Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk. I could shout at 'em; it's not a pet, Sir, hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me, right. And that's why it's great.Look, there's Billy Casper there wi' his pet hawk.' I could shout at 'em. It's not a pet, Sir. Hawks are not pets. Or when folks stop me and say, 'Is it tame?' Is it heck tame, it's trained, that's all. It's fierce, and it's wild, an' it's not bothered about anybody, not even about me right. And that's why it's great." (A Kestrel for a Knave)

WOLFGANG AMADEUS MOZART

"When I am, as it were, completely myself, entirely alone and of good cheer – say travelling in a carriage or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep – it is on such occasions that my ideas flow best and most abundantly. Whence, and how, they come I know not ; nor can I force them. Those ideas that please me I retain in memory and am accustomed, as I have been told, to hum them to myself. If I continue in this way, it soon occurs to me how I may turn this dainty morsel to account, so as to make a good dish of it. That is to say, agreeable to the rules of counterpoint, to the peculiarities of various instruments etc. All this fires my soul, and, provided I am not disturbed, my subject enlarges itself, becomes methodised, and defined, and the whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind, so that I can survey it like a fine picture or a beautiful statue at a glance. Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once. What a delight this is, I cannot tell."

WALT WHITMAN

The spotted hawk swoops by and accuses me, he complains of my gab and my loitering. I too am not a bit tamed, I too am untranslatable, I sound my barbaric yawp over the roofs of the world. The last scud of day holds back for me, It flings my likeness after the rest and true as any on the shadow’d wilds, It coaxes me to the vapor and the dusk. I depart as air, I shake my white locks at the runaway sun, I effuse my flesh in eddies, and drift it in lacy jags. I bequeath myself to the dirt to grow from the grass I love, If you want me again look for me under your boot-soles. You will hardly know who I am or what I mean, But I shall be good health to you nevertheless, And filter and fibre your blood. Failing to fetch me at first keep encouraged, Missing me one place search another, I stop somewhere waiting for you.

MARCUS AURELIUS

"Is your cucumber bitter? Throw it away. Are there briars in your path? Turn aside. That is enough. Do not go on and say, 'Why were things of this sort ever brought into this world?' neither intolerable nor everlasting - if thou bearest in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination. Pain is either an evil to the body (then let the body say what it thinks of it!)-or to the soul. But it is in the power of the soul to maintain its own serenity and tranquility."

VINCENT van GOGH

"What am I in the eyes of most people? A nonentity or an oddity or a disagreeable person — someone who has and will have no position in society, in short a little lower than the lowest. Very well — assuming that everything is indeed like that, then through my work I’d like to show what there is in the heart of such an oddity, such a nobody. This is my ambition, which is based less on resentment than on love in spite of everything, based more on a feeling of serenity than on passion. Even though I’m often in a mess, inside me there’s still a calm, pure harmony and music. In the poorest little house, in the filthiest corner, I see paintings or drawings. And my mind turns in that direction as if with an irresistible urge. As time passes, other things are increasingly excluded, and the more they are the faster my eyes see the picturesque. Art demands persistent work, work in spite of everything, and unceasing observation."