Ancient music’s most important value stems from its ability as a universal artistic language to transmit feelings, emotions and ancestral ideas that even today can enthral the contemporary listener. With a repertoire that encompasses the period between the 10th and 18th centuries, Hespèrion XXI searches continuously for new points of union between the East and West, with

Inspired by the mediaeval vocal ensembles known as the Chapels Royal, veritable temples of music for which the great sacred and secular works of the Iberian peninsula were composed, Montserrat Figueras and Jordi Savall decided, in 1987, to recover the mediaeval institution of the Capella Reial, founded in 1297 by king Jaume II. From 1990

Music is inevitably influenced by the personal circumstances of the person who composed it and by the social and cultural background at the time of its composition. The historical facts of each period, the composers, the instruments, the original intentions and motivations behind each score, comprise the palette for the player of ancient music, the