'Tous les matins du monde' at the IUC: Jordi Savall brings the project that revealed it to the general public to Rome for the first time

The soundtrack of the famous film by Alain Corneau (1991) to which the program is linked, made the magnetic sounds of the viola da gamba and the figures of Marin Marais and Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe known to a vast audience

IUC – University Institution of Concerts

Concert
In Rome

It was held on 7 February '23
At 20:30

Info

Aula Magna of La Sapienza University
Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5
Rome
Lazio

+39063610051
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The Concerts in the Aula Magna – 78th Season 2022 – 23

Get back to Rome for the season of IUC, Jordi Savall, first-rate star of early music and one of the main architects of the rediscovery and diffusion of those repertoires all over the world.

In a truly unmissable concert – Tuesday February 7, 2023 (20.30) in theGreat Hall of La Sapienza University – Savall will present Tous les matins du monde, the project linked to the famous movie of Alain Corneau with Gerard Depardieu, which in the early 90s revealed the Catalan musician to the general public.

Based on the novel of the same name by Pascal Quignard, Every morning in the world (France 1991) was not only nominated for a Golden Globe and won no less than seven César Awards, including Best Original Score, but it was also astonishingly successful at the box office, transforming Marine marais and the mysterious Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe from sophisticated figures known to a few 17th century French music lovers into a global phenomenon.

Of that company Jordi Savall edited and interpreted the soundtrack, as soloist on the viola da gamba and as director of his group The Concert des Nations: a grandiose anthology of music at the time of the Sun King which quickly became his "strong point", strangely never proposed before in Rome.

On this special occasion, Jordi Savall it will play its magnificent Violet from leg seven-string bass built by Barak Norman in 1697, in quartet with Christophe Coin also on the bass viol with seven strings, Xavier Diaz-Latorre theorbo and guitar, e Luca Guglielmi on the harpsichord.

The program pays homage to French composers of Grand Siècle that the film made known to a wider audience: Jean-Baptiste Lully (actually Florentine, Giovanni Battista Lulli, later naturalized French), in the service of the Sun King, who forged the musical taste of an entire century, Francois Couperin, and of course the two protagonists, Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe le père is Marin Marais, of which we will hear some wonderful pieces for viola da gamba, nostalgic and dreamlike, luminous and virtuosic.

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(Jordi Savall, photocredit Toni Peñarroya; below Marin Marais, portrait by André Bouys)

Jordi Savall he is one of the most multifaceted musical personalities (not only) of his generation.

For over fifty years he has been rediscovering and making known all over the world musical marvels left in the darkness of indifference and oblivion. He researches, reads and interprets this ancient music on his viol or as conductor. His activity as a concert performer, teacher, researcher and creator of new musical and cultural projects place him among the main architects and protagonists of the "renaissance" of early music. Jordi Savall founded, with Montserrat Figueras, the ensembles Hespèrion XXI (1974), La Capella Reial de Catalunya (1987) and Le Concert des Nations (1989), with which he explored and created a universe of emotion and beauty.

In his career he has recorded and published more than 230 records in the medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and classical repertoires, with particular attention to the Hispanic and Mediterranean musical heritage: works to which numerous awards have been given, including several Midem Awards, the International Classical Music Award and a Grammy Award.

His concert programs have made music an instrument of mediation for understanding and peace between different peoples and cultures, sometimes in conflict. It is therefore no coincidence that in 2008 Jordi Savall was appointed European Union Ambassador for intercultural dialogue and, alongside Montserrat Figueras, "Artist for Peace", within the "Goodwill Ambassadors" program of the UNESCO.

Savall's fruitful musical career has been crowned with the highest national and international awards, among which the titles of Doctor "honoris causa" from the Universities of Evora (Portugal), Barcelona (Catalonia), Leuven (Belgium), Basel ( Switzerland) and Utrecht (Netherlands). He was awarded the Chevalier of the Legion of Honor of the French Republic and received the International Prize of Music for Peace of the Ministry of Culture and Sciences of Lower Saxony, the Medalla d'Or of the Generalitat de Catalunya, the Helena Prize Vaz da Silva and the prestigious Léonie Sonning Prize, considered the Nobel Prize for music. Jordi Savall is also an honorary member of the Royal Philharmonic Society, the Royal Swedish Academy of Music and the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia.

Highlighted

The concert is realized with the support of Generalitat de Catalunya - Department of Culture andInstitut Ramon Llull.

Interpreters

Jordi Savall
seven-string bass viol by Barak Norman (London 1697) and conductor

Christophe Coin bass viol with seven strings
Xavier Diaz-Latorre theorbo and guitar
Luca Guglielmi harpsichord

Program

Tous les matins du monde

Jean-Baptiste Lully
Suite Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Mr de Sainte-Colombe, le père
Concert XLI for two égales violas: Le Retour
Marin Marais
Pièces de Viole from Books 3 and 4
François Couperin
Les Concerts Royaux and Nouveaux Concerts
Mr de Sainte-Colombe, le père
Concert XLIV for two égales violas: Tombeau Les Regrets
Marin Marais
Couplets de Folies (d'Espagne), from Pièces de Viole – Book 2