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Review by JJ September 14, 2010 (4 of 6 found this review helpful)
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The new recording by Jordi Savall is devoted to the Concert Spirituel at the time of Louis XV, with works by Corelli (Concert Grosso in D major Op.6 N°4), Telemann (Overture with the Suite in D minor TWV 55:D6, Concerto in A minor, Overture with the Suite in E minor “Tafelmusik” TWV 55:e1), and Rameau (Les Indes Galantes, Suite des airs à jouer). The Concert Spirituel saw the light of day in 1725, and as Michael Hurd notes, it programmed every year a series of 24 public concerts, and did so until 1791. Founded by the oboist Anne Danican Philidor, they were in fact “benefits” given during the periods (like Lent) when other spectacles were forbidden. The term “spiritual” indicated, at least at first, that religious music was the major component.” Which is not the case in the program Jordi Savall has concocted. Rather, accompanying and directing the Concert des Nations, he plunges us into a universe of overwhelming musical beauty in which charm predominates from the beginning to end of the scores performed, with a little something extra in poetic delicacy for the work of Rameau. Here is, quite simply, a must-have SACD.
Jean-Jacques Millo
Translation Lawrence Schulman
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