Jordi Savall, performer, researcher, and promoter of early music, has become known for beautifully produced thematic collections organized around topics as diverse as the worlds of Miguel Cervantes, Christopher Columbus, and Caravaggio, performed by his ensembles Hespèrion XX (and XXI), and La Capella Reial de Catalunya, and recorded on his own label, Alia Vox. This immensely ambitious project, Jerusalem: City of the two peaces: Heavenly Peace and Earthly Peace, consists of two SACDs and a sumptuous book in eight languages, French, Spanish, English, Catalan, German, Italian, Arabic, and Hebrew, that includes a wide assortment of intriguing essays.
La celebración del milenio granadino no podía haber sido puesta en mejores manos: Jordi Savall, al frente de sus ya míticos conjuntos y con un importante refuerzo de artistas vinculados a la música árabe, recreará el ambiente de la ciudad desde su fundación hasta su incorporación a la corona castellana casi cinco siglos después. De la fundación del Reino de Granada, expansión y esplendor del al-Andalus, hasta su incorporación al Reino de Castilla y León.