Coming this week in NYC is a trio of concerts by Jordi Savall — master viol player, conductor, teacher, entrepeneur, and all-around musical humanist. Vilaine Fille has the advance word on the series, which takes place in the Medieval Sculpture Hall and the Temple of Dendur at the Met Museum. There will be much music from Spain's Golden Age, together with works of Monteverdi, Marin Marais, Purcell, and Rameau. Alas, no Dowland — the above-pictured disc, on the Astrée / Naïve label, is to my taste one of the sweetest, saddest records ever made.
