Jordi Savall

Taken from a 2015 live performance, Jordi Savall depicts one of the biggest crimes in human history from the emotional point of view that only music allows. This 444-year journey, from 1444 to 1888, journeys from Mali, Brazil and Columbia to Mexico and the United States. For the first time, major artists from the heart of Africa, including Ballaké Sissoko, join the Alia Vox team.

North of Barcelona sits the hill of Montserrat ("serrated mountain" in Catalan). Atop its summit sits the monastery of Santa Maria, which houses the famous "Black Madonna", La Moreneta, a holy object which has drawn pilgrims since the 12th century. The Llibre Vermell ("Red Book") is a collection of music, hymns, writings and much more that has been the crown of the monastery's archives for centuries, and it is music from that which Savall and his team perform here. The music was written to be danced in the church or the cloisters. This performance gives us an insight into medieval Christianity that is all but unique, and it's cherishable if for nothing other than historical reasons. The polyphony is early, and modest, but the choir of La Capella Reial sing it with seriousness and disarming simplicity. The ladies are particularly impressive, with some spine-tingling alto solos that are both devotional and sensuous in a combination that shouldn't work but really does.

Jordi Savall conducts La Capella Reial de Catalunya & Le Concert des Nation thought this Bach's masterpiece: the Mass in B minor.

Believing that the chorus parts are of a complexity even greater than that of the solo parts, Jordi Savall handpicked for this recording an 'academy' of young singers destined for careers as solo professionals. The technical and artistic quality of the result obtained after several weeks of rehearsal is beyond superlatives. Jordi Savall chose to adapt the number of singers in each section of Bach's sublime Mass, in his first recording of a vocal work by Bach.

An abstract animated short blending floating particles, light, and classical music. The director's first use of computer animation mirrors his first animated short Continu-discontinu (1959).

Dinastia Borgia is a musical odyssey tracing the history of the Borgias from the birth of Alfonso de Borgia in the 14th century, through his accession to the Papacy and the subsequent twists and turns of theocratic intrigue. This documentary DVD looks behind the scenes of the the three disc recording.

The Musical Offering (German title: Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer), BWV 1079, is a collection of canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great (Frederick II of Prussia), to whom they are dedicated.

Taped live in Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu on January 31, 2002, this L'Orfeo is both a visual delight and a musically satisfying representation of Monteverdi's opera

Taped live in Barcelona's Gran Teatre del Liceu on January 31, 2002, this L'Orfeo is both a visual delight and a musically satisfying representation of Monteverdi's opera

Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.

A tale about an independent-minded university professor who leaves her family to travel across the countryside to visit a friend.

A documentary featuring musician Jordi Savall

Retrato del músico Christophe Coin: violonchelista, gambista, solista, músico de cámara, profesor y director de orquesta.

Continuación de "Juana de Arco I - Las batallas". Después de la derrota francesa en la batalla de Orleáns, Juana de Arco (1412-1431) es arrestada y enviada a prisión. En dos procesos separados, es acusada de herejía y condenada a morir en la hoguera.

Jeanne the Maid leaves her childhood home in Domremy after hearing what she is sure was the voice of God. She believes that she can help lead France to victory on the battlefield, and she persuades Charles, dauphin of France to allow her to guide his troops.

Narra la relación entre dos músicos franceses del siglo XVII: el joven Marin Marais, violista y compositor de la corte de Luis XIV, y su maestro Sainte Colombe, un auténtico genio de su instrumento que está sumido en una profunda melancolía desde la muerte de su mujer.

El descubrimiento de América hará posible que dos continentes que hasta entonces habían permanecido separados y completamente ausentes uno del otro, se descubran y conecten entre sí. Aunque la verdadera conexión requerirá de varios siglos para resultar efectiva y sobre todo necesitará de un cordón umbilical que la hiciera posible. Ese cordón serán las flotas de Indias, uno de los sistemas navales más exitosos de la historia, que con su incansable ir y venir durante más de dos siglos, terminarán transformando el Nuevo Mundo e iniciando el proceso de globalización mundial.