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00:00 - Lachrimae Amara
02:17 - Lachrimae Dolente
04:02 - Lachrimae Gementes

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In Memoriam Montserrat Figueras (15 March 1942 - 23 November 2011)
(Savall's wife)


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Jordi Savall i Bernadet is a Spanish viol player, conductor and composer. He has been one of the major figures in the field of Western early music since the 1970s, largely responsible for bringing the viol (viola da gamba) back to life on the stage. His characteristic repertory ranges from Medieval to Renaissance and Baroque music, though he has occasionally ventured into the classical or even the romantic period.
Savall's musical training started at the age of six in the school choir of his native town (1947--55). After completion of training at the Barcelona Conservatory of Music (1959--65), he specialised in early music, collaborating with Ars Musicae Barcelona of Enric Gispert and studying under August Wenzinger at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel, Switzerland (1968-70). In 1974 he succeeded Wenzinger as professor of viola da gamba at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jordi_Savall]

Montserrat Figueras García (15 March 1942, Barcelona, Spain - 23 November 2011, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Spain) was a Catalan soprano who specialized in early music.
Figueras was born in Barcelona, Catalonia (Spain), and began studying early singing techniques together with her sister Pilar Figueras in 1966 and developed an approach and technique for singing early music which combined historical fidelity with vitality.
In 1974 she and Jordi Savall, her husband since 1968, Lorenzo Alpert and Hopkinson Smith formed Hespèrion XX, an early music ensemble. Figueras and her husband were members of a newer version of that ensemble, Hespèrion XXI. They also founded the groups La Capella Reial de Catalunya and Le Concert des Nations.
Figueras also performed and recorded regularly as a solo artist. She and her husband performed with their children: daughter Arianna and son Ferran.
She died, surrounded by her family, after a long battle with cancer. The funeral was held at the Monastery of Pedralbes in Barcelona, Spain.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montserrat_Figueras]
[http://www.alia-vox.com/]