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A Franco-Italian double Baroque Christmas
5th Dec 2025by David Smith
Festive works by Alessandro Scarlatti and Marc-Antoine Charpentier offer tastes of two different Baroque Christmas flavours, with Giulio Prandi's Coro e Orchestra Ghislieri joined by a brief but glorious stellar turn from Carlotta Colombo and Christophe Rousset marshalling the Monteverdi Singers and English Baroque Soloists.
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Christophe Rousset on Christmas with Charpentier
26th Nov 2025by David Smith
The French conductor talks about his new album with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, which puts the spotlight on glorious ancien régime works for the Christmas season.
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Jonathan Sells on Gesualdo, Bruckner and unexpected Wagner
10th Jul 2025by David Smith
The newly-appointed Choir Director of the Monteverdi Choir talks about his new album with the Choir, juxtaposing motets by Bruckner and Gesualdo and seeing both through a Wagnerian lens.
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Bach Cantatas from Sir John Eliot Gardiner
8th Apr 2013by David Smith
As a coda to his mighty Bach Pilgrimage, Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir present the Ascension Cantatas, which were originally scheduled to be recorded as part of the project but had to be abandoned due to noise issues.
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Santiago a cappella
30th Aug 2010by Chris O'Reilly
Sir John Eliot Gardiner takes us on a journey through medieval and Renaissance Spain as he and the Monteverdi Choir follow in the footsteps of the pilgrims who travelled to the shrine of Saint James the Great.