There is something so monumentally ambitious about Jordi Savall’s massive recording that you can only be awe-struck. Two CDs, a 400-page lavishly illustrated book with texts and essays on Jerusalem – the city and the music – in six languages, all produced in the service of peace.
One of the world’s early music experts, Savall uses the best soloists and ensembles. The soprano Montserrat Figueras, the group Hespèrion XXI and the singers of the Capella Reial de Catalunya will be familiar to any early-music lover; less so the assembled musicians from Europe and the Middle East.
