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La Capella Reial de Catalunya (Vocal & Instrumental Ensemble)

Founded: 1987 - Catalunya/Catalonia, Spain

Convinced that a country’s cultural roots and traditions always have a decisive influence on the expression of its musical language, in 1987 Jordi Savall and Montserrat Figueras founded La Capella Reial (= LCRC) , one of the first vocal ensembles devoted to the interpretation of Hispanic Golden Age music according to historical principles and consisting exclusively of Hispanic and Latin voices.

Following the model of the famous “royal chapels” for which the great masterpieces of both religious and secular music were composed in the Iberian peninsula, this new “Capella Reial”, which in 1990 took the name of Capella Reial de Catalunya, was born as the result of more than 13 years of research and interpretation in the field of early music. Together with Hespèrion XX (founded in 1974), its main objective is to extend and deepen the fields of research into the specific characteristics of the Hispanic and European polyphonic vocal legacy before 1800. The hallmark of this ensemble is its approach to performance, which balances meticulous vocal sound quality and appropriateness to the style of the period with expressive diction and projection of the poetic text, always striving above all to convey the spiritual and artistic dimension peculiar to each individual work. Under the direction of Jordi Savall, it has an intense schedule of concert performances and recordings and regularly takes part in the principal music festivals around the world.

The repertoire and major recordings of the group, as reflected in its 25 CD's, range from the Cantigas of King Alfonso the Wise and the Llibre Vermell de Montserrat to W.A. Mozart’s Requiem, and include, among others, the Golden Age Cancioneros and the great masters of the Renaissance and the Baroque periods, such as Mateu Flecha, Cristóbal de Morales, Francisco Guerrero, Tomás Luis de Victoria, Joan Cererols, Claudio Monteverdi, H. I. von Biber and, more recently, El Misteri d’Elx and Narcís Casanovas.

The ensemble has also taken part in the soundtrack of Jacques Rivette’s film Jeanne la Pucelle, on the life of Joan of Arc, and has performed in the operas Una cosa rara, by Vicente Martín y Soler, and Orfeo, by Claudio Monteverdi, staged at Barcelona’s Gran Teatre del Liceu in 1991 and 1993, respectively. Orfeo was also staged at Teatro Real in Madrid (2000), the Konzerthaus in Vienna (2001), the Teatro Reggio in Turin (2000) and once again at the newly rebuilt Liceu in Barcelona (2001), the latter production being recorded in a BBC-Opus Arte DVD. Since 1990, La Capella Reial de Catalunya has received the official support of the Generalitat, the Autonomous Government of Catalonia.

Members of La Capella Reial Choir (1987-2023):

Sopranos

Altos

Tenors

Basses

Aina Albajar Sigalés
Alba Aparicio Nériz
Mar Barbany Albajar
Alice Borciani
Raúl Campos Calzada
Victoria Cassano
Coline Dutilleul
Glòria Fernàndez
Barbara Fink
Laia Frigolé
Rocío de Frutos
Marie-Frédérique Girod
Claudia Habermann
Júlia Illa Sanchis
Anna Kellnhofer
Regula Konrad
Jeanne Lefort
Chiara Maggi
Lucía Martín-Cartón
Elionor Martínez
Irene Mas
Carmit Natan
Anaïs Oliveras
Mariona Pérez Milà
Armelle Morvan
Verónica Plata
Magdalena Podkościelna
Rachel Redmond
Anna Ruiz Domínguez
Carmina Sánchez Picazo
Laia Serradesanferm Córdoba
Eline Soelmark
Baiba Urka
Lidia Vinyes Curtis
Lise Viricel
Núria Vives Xalabarder

Aina Brichs Ralló
Mercè Bruguera Abelló
Elena Carzaniga
Agnès Casajoana Ortega
Victoria Cassano
Gabriel Díaz
Coline Dutilleul
Eulàlia Fantova
Maria Chiara Gallo
Jorge Enrique García
Daniel Folqué
Lila Hajosi
Gabriel Jublin
Angélica Monje
Beatriz Oleaga
Sara Perulero Arroyo
Aina Pocurull Masferrer
Aina Relats Molins
David Sagastume
Aurelio Schiavoni
Doron Schleifer
Mireia Sagalés Carbonell
Aina Sala Ventura
Helena Soria Plans
Oscar Verhaar
Mar Vila Torres

Emilio Aguilar
Antonio Aragón
Luciano Bonci
Francisco Fernández-Rueda
Rodrigo Carreto
David Hernéndez
Patrick Kuhn
Peter de Laurentiis
Ferran Mitjans
Carlos Monteiro
Israel Moreno
Loïc Paulin
Tiago Pinheiro de Oliveira
Albert Riera
Diederik Rooker
Víctor Sordo
Matthew Thomson

Pierre Beller
Pau Bordas
Daniele Carnovich
Vlad Crosman
Yannis François
Javier Jiménez-Cuevas
Oriol Mallart
Julián Millán
Simón Millán
Josep-Ramon Olivé
Francesc Ortega
Xavier Pagès
Marco Scavazza
Pieter Stas
Víctor Vilca

Sources:
Alia Vox Website
Contributed by
Aryeh Oron (December 2012, July 2018, February 2022)

Jordi Savall: Short Biography | Ensembles: Hespèrion XX | La Capella Reial de Catalunya | Le Concert des Nations
Bach Discography:
Recordings of Instrumental Works | Recordings of Vocal Works
Reviews of Instrumental Recordings:
Bach Sonatas for Gamba and Harpsichord | Review of Savall Musical Offering

Links to Sites

Alia Vox (Official Website) [multi-lingual]


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