METAMORPHOSES FIDEI
Les Metamorfosis de la Fe

Ref: AV9849

• Montserrat Firgueras
• Jordi Savall
• La Capella Reial de Catalunya
• Hespèrion XXI

“Of forms transformed into bodies new I sing.
Oh gods, who wrought these changes.”

Ovid, Metamorphoses, Book I, vv. 1-2

Everything that changes remains, and everything that is transformed withstands the passage of time. Ideas and beliefs alter over the centuries to live on and thrive in the human consciousness. Traditions, languages, expressions… everything takes on new colour, is influenced and transformed into something new while preserving the essence of its former self. These transformations, changes and substitutions are brought about by contact between civilizations. Mythologies are dressed in new apparel to usher in new characters with the attributes of their predecessors: the classical sibyls become prophetesses; the benevolent gods, angels; the demons, lost souls and the sacred mothers, virgins. What appears to be new in fact already existed.

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JORDI SAVALL
Bellaterra, 2006