Dinastia Borgia 4 DVD+CD Set / La Capella Reial de Catalunya / Hespèrion XXI / Conductor: Jordi Savall / DVD+CD

Format: DVD+СD

Run time: 231 Minutes

UPC: 7619986398754

• Language ‏ : ‎ English
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.63 x 7.72 x 1.5 inches; 1.76 Pounds
• Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ Imports
• Item model number ‏ : ‎ AVOSA9875 02
• Date First Available ‏ : ‎ October 13, 2010
• Label ‏ : ‎ Imports
• Number of discs ‏ : ‎ 4

The celebration of the 500th anniversary of the birth of St Francis Borgia (Gandia 1510 – Rome 1572), the last of the illustrious members of the “Borgia Dynasty,” prompted us to embark on the present historical and musical project, recalling the most significant events of the age in which the chief protagonists of this extraordinary and fascinating family lived: Alfonso de Borja (Callistus III), Rodrigo de Borja (Alexander VI), Giovanni Borgia, Cesare Borgia, Lucrezia Borgia and St Francis Borgia.

The latest historical, musical fresco by Jordi Savall is this time devoted to the famous Borgia family. On three SACDs of copious content and a DVD on the creation of the project, the famous bassist opens for us the doors to a universe that is both fascinating and daunting. For, as Joan Francesc Mira recounts in the brochure accompanying the recording: “The history of more than one hundred years of the Borgia family is, without legend or myth, an adventure that can barely be imagined if it were not totally real: a family of the lower Valencia aristocracy which, in less than a half century, gave two Popes and a dozen cardinals to the Roman church, and which for many years held power in this same church. It was a family which managed to marry its children (like Father, like Son!) to members of the most important reigning families. It also became the source of power struggles in Italy and at the same time the theater of an accumulation of infamies the likes of which the Papacy and Roman Catholic Church have never know since. And finally, it closed the incredible circle by producing a great saint, general of the Company of Jesus in the middle of the Counter-Reformation. An audacious novelist’s fantasy could not have imagined a story like that.” Accompanied by Montserrat Figueras, Lior Elmaleh, Driss El Maloumi, Pascal Bertin, Lluis Vilamajo, Marc Mauillon, Furio Zanasi and Daniele Carnovich, Jordi Savall once again finds the narrative magic of his Don Quichotte in a musical discourse that includes such famous figures Josquin des Prez or Cristobal de Morales. Yet again, one can only laud a unique historical, intellectual and musical undertaking. Inspired throughout, as heard here it is of undeniable human verity.