Hespèrion XXI, Montserrat Figueras, Jordi Savall | fr

Montserrat Figueras, née et morte à Barcelone (15 mars 1942 - 23 novembre 2011), est une chanteuse lyrique soprano espagnole de Catalogne (son père joue du violoncelle). Biographie Très jeune, elle étudie le chant et le théâtre. Elle rejoint l'ensemble de musique ancienne Ars Musicae, où elle chante les œuvres des grands polyphonistes espagnols du XVIe siècle. Au sein de cette formation, elle rencontre Jordi Savall qu'elle épouse en 1968 et avec lequel elle aura deux enfants : Arianna et Ferran Savall, tous deux chanteurs et musiciens. En 1968, le couple part à Bâle en Suisse étudier à la Schola...

Contestant on the 2005 CBS television show "Rockstar: INXS," a competition in which 15 hopefuls got the chance to perform for INXS, with one leaving weekly, and the last remaining rocker winning the grand prize of fronting INXS. Jordis impressed INXS from the first week, and many saw her as the leading female. She sang many classic rock songs, such as "Baba O'Riley", "Knockin' On Heaven's Door", "Imagine", "Layla", "Gimme Some Lovin'", and David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World", which she later released as a single after being requested for an encore by the band. She also sang...

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Hespèrion XX was an international early music ensemble formed in Basel, Switzerland in 1974 by Spanish musical director Jordi Savall. In 2000 it was superseded by the group Hespèrion XXI. The lineup includes Jordi Savall (direction/bowed string instruments), Montserrat Figueras (soprano), Lorenzo Alpert (flautist, percussionist), Hopkinson Smith (plucked string instruments), and other musicians. The ensemble is noted for its scholarship in early music, especially the music of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Spain. .