When we invoke the Spanish Golden Age, that thriving of arts and culture in the 16th and 17th centuries, we think, inevitably, of Cervantes, El Greco, Velázquez. We too are ever in the midst of the Spanish Golden Age. Savall wound up in Mexico City, demonstrating that the Spanish Golden Age DNA strands may be more plentiful in the New World than normally realized. The New World gilded the Spanish Golden Age in its own way. Look with insight into a small corner of the musical past, we learn from Savall, and history itself is folia writ large.

Source: Los Angeles Times February 04, 2020 01:18 UTC