Instruments of Venice: Jordi Savall and Hespèrion XXI at Carnegie Hall

Over het evenement

Allow a legend of period performance to take the helm and steer you across the Lido, with dances, songs and sonatas to cheer your path. Jordi Savall and his ensemble, Hespèrion XXI, explore the instrumental music of the Venetian Republic of the 16th and 17th Centuries.

Musicians such as Andrea and Giovanni Gabrieli, Tarquinio Merula, and Giorgio Mainerio heralded a new era in Venetian composition. Drawing on old dances and folk tunes for inspiration, they crafted an instrumental canon where brilliance and beauty combined with harmonic and rhythmic experimentation.