As one of the trailblazers of the early-music movement, the Catalan polymath Jordi Savall needs no introduction. As master of the viola da gamba, musicologist, and founder-director of the ensemble Le Concert des Nations, he has nothing to prove. That said, he has much to teach. No specialist in any usual sense, Savall takes all music as his province, putting his stamp of immediacy on all he touches. Inspired, perhaps, by his album Mozart: The Symphonic Testament (2019), the Berlin Philharmonic has invited Savall to reacquaint them with a score about which you would imagine they thought they had nothing to learn. At 84, he will be standing before these models of space-age virtuosity for the first time, leading Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, the valedictory “Jupiter.” Better late than never! The program opens with an orchestral suite from Jean-Philippe Rameau’s opera Naïs and Christoph Willibald Gluck’s ballet Don Juan, atypical fare for the Berliners, home ground for their guest. —Matthew Gurewitsch
Arts Intel Report
Jordi Savall makes his Berlin Philharmonic debut with Mozart's "Jupiter" Symphony
Jordi Savall
When
Dec 4–6, 2025
Where
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Photo: David Ignaszewski