Jordi Savall, Dominique Fernandez: Lachrimae Caravaggio [Import]

Jordi Savall (Composer), Hesperion XXI (Performer), Luca Guglielmi (Performer), Le Concert des Nations (Orchestra), Ferran Savall (Performer) | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Performer: Hesperion XXI, Luca Guglielmi, Ferran Savall
• Orchestra: Le Concert des Nations
• Composer: Jordi Savall
• Audio CD (June 12, 2007)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Alia Vox Spain
• ASIN: B000QUTSAC
• In-Print Editions: Audio CD  |  MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #298,646 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 1. Cantus Caravaggio 1 (Jordi Savall)

2. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 1. 1 Lachrimæ Tristes (Jordi Savall)

3. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 1. Deploratio 1 (Improvisation)

4. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 1. Planctus Caravaggio 1 (Jordi Savall)

5. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 2. Extasis (Improvisation)

6. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 2. Fantasia 'Moro, Lasso' (d'après Carlo Gesualdo)

7. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 2. 2 Lachrimæ Invocantis (Improvisation)

8. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 2. Sinfonia di Guerra (d'après Monteverdi)

9. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 2. Pugna & Damnatio (Jordi Savall)

10. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 3. Imploratio (Improvisation)

11. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 3. Deploratio 2 (Improvisation)

12. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 3. Concentus: Aria - Recit - Lamento - Aria (d'après A. Stradella & L. Rossi)

13. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 3. Lachrimæ Dolcissima (Improvisation)

14. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 4. Durezze ligature (d'après Trabaci)

15. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 4. Passacaglia 'Umbrae' (Improvisation)

16. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 4. Cantus Caravaggio 2 'O Lux' (Jordi Savall)

17. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 4. 4 Lachrimae Amara (Improvisation)

18. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 5. Transitio (Improvisation)

19. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 5. Passacaglia 'Libertas' (Jordi Savall)

20. Lachrimæ Caravaggio, for early music ensemble: Statio 5. 5 Lachrimae Dolente (Improvisation)

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Customer Reviews

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16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Shows the dark beauty and emotional range of Caravaggio's work, August 12, 2007

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This review is from: Jordi Savall, Dominique Fernandez: Lachrimae Caravaggio [Hybrid SACD] (Audio CD)

I love Caravaggio's paintings. I've had a great time hunting them down in the churches of Rome and viewing them. They are works of heart-searching beauty, with their sombre shading and meditative sorrow. Jordi Savall's piece does them justice; it is very beautiful music, darkly harmonic and though it contrasts from movement to movement within the Statia, all is integrated in form and theme. The viol da gamba voice is especially heart-rending. I find myself hungering for Lachrimae Caravaggio and listening to it every day. Studying Caravaggio's prints while listening is a totally satisfying aesthetic experience.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Quest for the Perfect Piece of Art: Lachrimae Caravaggio, July 21, 2007

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Alejandro Patino (Calgary, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jordi Savall, Dominique Fernandez: Lachrimae Caravaggio (Audio CD)

During the XVI and the XVIII centuries, the ideal work of art was conceived as a combination of painting, music, writing and sculpture. The most dazzling expressions of this quest for the ideal piece of art were the Opera and the Theatre, where musicians combined their talents with writers, painters, architects and carvers to materialize a given drama on stage. Musician Jordi Savall, his collaborators and Dominique Fernandez have followed the footsteps of this ideal in order to create Lachrimae Caravaggio, an album composed by a set of music pieces and a collection of essays inspired in paintings created by Michaelangelo Merissi (commonly known as Caravaggio) in the XVII century in Italy.
The music featured in the album is a collection of improvisations and versions of works by Monteverdi and other Baroque musicians, although the album it is not a compilation of specific pieces of Early Music per se: On the one hand, the music follows the conventions and the mysticism of baroque esthetics, but on the other hand the improvisations and the vocals add a touch of contemporaneous rhythms. This point is significant as the convergence of both types of music create a deep and beautiful musical experience which recreates and recalls the contrast between light and shadows present in the work and the life of Caravaggio, a topic also recalled and explored in the essays by Fernandez included in the album, making this album a delightful experience highly recommended.

13 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Beautiful Playing But..., August 7, 2007

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D. A Wend (Arlington Heights, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jordi Savall, Dominique Fernandez: Lachrimae Caravaggio (Audio CD)

First off, I am a longtime admirer of Jordi Savall and had the great pleasure this year of attending a concert given by Hesperion XXI this year. Being fired up by this experience, I was interested in the more recent recordings by Jordi Savall and came across Lachrimae Caravaggio.

As has been noted by the excellent prior review, this disc is the result of an exhibition of Caravaggio's paintings in Barcelona at the Museum of Catalan Art. The majority of the music is improvised by Jordi Savall and Hesperion XXI with pieces by Gesualdo and Trabaci. The pieces by Mr. Savall are based on a melody of the period that is first heard in the first selection - the Cantus Caravaggio I - and continues to the last piece in the collection. There are also pieces entitled Deplorationes that include wordless voice sung by Ferran Savall that are very moving and sound so full of despair. As I listened to the music it was clear that this is excellent mood music to accompany the paintings of Caravaggio, particularly if looking at the originals, but after a single hearing I had had enough.

The problem for me is that there is little variation in the music so that one piece sounds very much like the one that preceded it. After several minutes of listening I was wondering if the tempo might change to something livelier. The performances are beautifully executed but, sorry to say, this is not a disc that I want to listen to with any regularity. I think that listening to the excerpts of the music available at Amazon will bear out the elegiac mood of all of the pieces; all beautifully played but all so much the same. Unfortunately, I cannot recommend this disc, despite the fact that it is beautifully produced with an equally fine booklet.