Il viaggio d'Amore Arianna Savall

• Anonym 16c. / Salinas / arr. Savall / Johansen: Spain
• 1 Rosa fresca 02:49
• Anonym / Savall / Johansen: Spain
• 2 Canarios 03:43
• Cancionero de Palacio (14 c.): Spain
• 3 Yo me soy la morenica 02:41
• Trad. / F. García Lorca (1898-1936) / Savall: Spain
• 4 La tarara 03:18
• Santiago de Murcia (1673 -1739) / Savall: Spain
• 5 Jotas 02:54
• Catalan folksong / A. Savall: Catalonia
• 6 La Dama d'Aragó 07:22
• Anxo Pintos / arr. J. Vogel / Savall / Johansen: Galicia
• 7 Cancro Cru 03:59
• Claudio Monteverdi / arr. Savall /Johansen: Italy
• 8 Si dolce è il tormento 05:07
• Trad. Ticino / arr. Savall /Johansen: Switzerland
• 9 Girometta 03:22
• Anonym 16 c. / arr. A. Savall: France
• 10 L'amour de moi 03:25
• Pierre Sandrin (1490-1561) / Savall / Johansen: France
• 11 Doulce mémoire 06:08
• Guillaume Apollinaire (text) / Savall (music): France
• 12 L'adieu 04:15
• Franz Schubert (1797-1828) / J. w. von Goethe: Germany and Austria
• 13 Heidenröslein 02:23
• Trad. / Johansen: England
• 14 I will give my love an apple 03:28
• Trad. / Johansen: Norway
• 15 Astri, mi Astri Sekstturen 07:22
• Violeta Parra (1917-1967) / Jan Hammarlund: Chile
• 16 Gracias a la Vida 07:15
• Total Runtime 01:09:31

Info for Il viaggio d'Amore

Love songs from di erent countries and centuries, performed by Arianna Savall, Petter Udland Johansen and their ensemble Hirundo Maris.

The new album by Arianna Savall and Petter Udland Johansen, following last years’ Hildegard of Bingen - recording, is a musical journey of Amor, the love, through Europe and beyond, and through different ages and cultures. Assembled on this album are traditional songs, songs from Renaissance sources as well as new compositions by Arianna Savall and, finally, the famous “Gracias a la vida” by Chilenian singer and political activist Violeta Parra.

The six musicians of Hirundo Maris combine all these diverse musical sources of their music into a time- and weightless dance through time and space. In the end, it is not clear anymore where the borders and differences between them are, and it is not even important anymore: Love as the universal uniting force is being applied here in a most practical way, and made comprehensible and very real to the attentive listener.

Hirundo Maris:
Arianna Savall, soprano, baroque triple harp
Petter Udland Johansen, tenor, hardingfele, cittern
Michal Nagy, guitar, voice
Sveinung Lilleheier, guitar, dobro, voice
Miquel Angel Cordero, colascione, double base, voice
David Mayoral, percussion, voice

Arianna Savall
born in Switzerland, studied in Basel and Terrassa. She began studying early music performance practise with Rolf Lislevand at the Toulouse Conservatory in 1992. Between 1996 and 2001 she returned to Schola Cantorum Basiliensis for postgraduate studies in singing with Kurt Widmer and historical harp studies with Heidrun Rosenzweig, and in 2006/7 studied Spanish baroque harp with Andrew Lawrence-King in Barcelona. She made her debut as singer of baroque opera in Basel in 2000 performing the “Opera Seria” of Florian Leopold Gassmann. This was followed in 2002 by a highly successful Barcelona production of Moneverdi’s “Orfeo” directed by Jordi Savall, with Arianna as Eurydice. Her recordings with the Savall family and with Hespèrion XXI ensemble have received numerous awards. Arianna’s own albums for Alia Vox include “Bella Terra” (2003) and “Peiwoh” (2009), the latter also with contributions from Hirundo Maris’s Petter Udland Johansen and David Mayoral.

Petter Udland Johansen was born in Oslo, where he received his first voice and instrumental training. He graduated from the Norges Musikhøyskole, studying voice with Ingrid Bjoner and Svein Bjørkøy in 1996 and from Basel’s Schola Cantorum with Richard Levitt in 2000, making also additional studies with the tenor Hans Peter Blochwitz. His operatic and concert repertoire of classical music includes the works of Bach, Monteverdi, Mozart, and Mendelssohn as well as songs by Schubert, Grieg, Wolf, Mahler and Brahms. He has worked with conductors including Rinaldo Alessandrini, Jordi Savall, Pep Prats, Christer Løvold, Tom and Tobias Kjellum Gossmann. Groups with which he has given concerts and recordings include Sagene Ring, Capella Antiqua Bambergensis, Pratum Musicum, La Morra, Ferarra and Lucidarium. Together with Christer Løvold and Mark B. Lay, he founded the vocal trio Pechrima.