JAVIER: ROUTE OF THE ORIENT: CAPELLA REIAL DE CATALUNYA, SAVALL (2 HYBRID SACD)

Hespèrion XXI
La Capella Reial de Catalunya
Jordi Savall
Although we had been intrigued for many years by the extraordinary travels of Francis Xavier, the seminal idea for this programme began to take shape in the spring of 1996, when we were invited by the Festival of St. Florent le Vieil to give a concert with Spanish and Japanese musicians to commemorate Francis Xavier’s arrival in Japan. The programme was entitled “1549 RITUALS & PROPHECIES: Japan & Spain in the time of Saint Francis Xavier.”