La Capella Reial de Catalunya

La Capella Reial de Catalunya is a vocal ensemble of early music, which receives mainly in the Iberian peninsula composed works of sacred and secular music of the Renaissance and Baroque repertoire be. The named to 1990 as Capella Reial group was founded in 1987 by Montserrat Figueras and Jordi Savall, to explore the musical roots and cultural traditions of the Iberian Peninsula and to preserve and perform for Hispanic and related European polyphonic vocal music from the period before 1800.

The Capella Reial de Catalunya considers itself the tradition of Capelles Reials, the Royal Chapels singer at the court of the Crown of Aragon with Catalonia and the Kingdom of Castile, committed. For these singers chapels, many of the compositions on the Iberian Peninsula in the aftermath of James I of Aragon and Alfonso X of Castile over the period of the reign of Alfonso II of Aragon, the Magnificent, until the time of the late Renaissance and the Baroque were created. Thus, the Capella Reial de Catalunya, for example, the medieval Cantigas de Santa Maria of Alfonso X of Castile in her repertoire as well as the Hispanic music of the 15th century at the time of Isabella I of Castile. In addition, can also be heard with composers of the Spanish Renaissance and the Catalan and Spanish Baroque, as with works by Mateu Flecha the Elder, Cristóbal de Morales and Francisco Guerrero Capella. However, they also interpreted the works of other European music as baroque works such as the Vespers of Claudio Monteverdi or the Missa Bruxellensis by Heinrich Ignaz Franz Biber.

Capella, led by Jordi Savall are worldwide every year numerous concerts and had been represented at renowned music festivals such as the Edinburgh Festival and at Operhäuesern such as Madrid, Vienna and Brussels with age music. In addition, the ensemble has released numerous recordings of his repertoire. Among them were several shots are their interpretation of the song of the Sibyl, a medieval musical work with special significance for the Castilian language and the Iberian Peninsula, the Capella together with Montserrat Figuera partially reconstructed.

The Capella has received several awards for her recordings with Montserrat Figuera and Jordi Savall, including a prize from the Académie du Disque Français and an Academy Award Charles Cros, also from France. Since 1990 the Generalitat de Catalunya, the automome self-government of Catalonia, a Capella Reial patronage of the de Catalunya has taken, in recognition of the contribution of Capella preservation and dissemination of the cultural heritage of the region

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