John Eliot Gardiner's spectacular falling out with his record company Deutsche Grammophon made the news pages, and also imperilled his ambition to celebrate the millennium and mark the 250th ...
Part of John Eliot Gardiner’s mammoth Bach Cantatas project with his English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir. This set of cantatas, released this week, was recorded live at the church of St.
LONDON — Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s self-produced recording of Bach cantatas won record of the year honors Thursday at the annual Gramophone Awards. The recording, on Gardiner’s Soli Deo Gloria label, ...
Bach’s three surviving cantatas for Jubilate Sunday, the third after Easter, are fully understood and articulated by Gardiner in his ‘Bach Pilgrimage’ performances. Special things take wing in Weinen, ...
Cantata No. 178, 'Wo Gott der Herr nicht bei uns h English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor Monteverdi Choir Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer Cantata No. 136, 'Erforsche mich, Gott, und ...
Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Canatata Pilgrimage is now available as a complete box set. Released by Soli Deo Gloria and featuring a whopping 56 CDs in total, the collection marks the first time the ...
The latest in John Eliot Gardiner's award-winning Bach pilgrimage features cantatas recorded live in December 2000: BWV 61, 62, 36 in Cologne, BWV 70, 132, 147 in Lüneberg. In a typically lively ...
It never happens often enough, but now and then, a subject gets the book it deserves. So it is with John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, a biography so thoughtful, ...
LEIPZIG, Germany — What will Bachfest Leipzig do for an encore? You had to wonder almost from the start of this year’s installment, last Friday. The festival ...
Planning your audio adventure should be easy enough: resolve to take in a cantata on every Sunday and other holy day throughout the church year. There are plenty of online guides to tell you what Bach ...
In his 40-year career, the conductor John Eliot Gardiner has traversed every era of classical music. He began in what is known as “early music”, with electrifying performances of composers such as ...
Things look a lot less cheerful the following Sunday with Schau, lieber Gott (No 153) and Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid (No 58), both saturated by an echt-Lutheran sense of anxiety and oppression.