JORDI SAVALL & NÚRIA RIAL

WHEN MUSIC STILL BREATHES

The Perelada Festival and the Jordi Savall Festival join forces in a co-production that brings together two key figures in the contemporary understanding of early music. A partnership that connects festivals from the north and south of Catalonia in a shared project. Jordi Savall and Núria Rial will share the stage in a programme centred on the Italian Baroque, a field that both have made a decisive contribution, shaping it through a perspective that combines rigour, sensitivity and historical awareness.
This concert comes at a particularly significant moment in Savall's career, following his recent reception of the 2026 Ernst von Siemens Music Prize, one of the most prestigious awards in international music. Beyond the recognition itself, the prize extends beyond performance and acknowledges a musician who has transformed the way we listen to, understand and transmit early music today.
Far from an archaeological approach, the programme understands the Italian Baroque as a living space where rhetoric becomes an expressive language. Arias, psalms, and instrumental pieces by composers such as Albinoni, Geminiani and Vivaldi are articulated here as a continuum, sustained by gesture, phrasing and a shared listening between voice and instruments.
Núria Rial's voice, with the luminosity and precision that have defined her career, finds in this repertoire a natural space for expression, where the vocal line is shaped through clarity and nuance. Her musical rapport with Savall, forged through various projects, translates into a way of understanding musical time through breath and balance.
With Les Musiciennes du Concert des Nations, an ensemble inspired by 18th-century Venetian musical institutions, and under the leadership of concertmaster Lina Tur Bonet, the concert also becomes a space for transmission. An encounter that does not view the past as a fixed reference point, but as active material from which to rethink the present.