Gillian Keith
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Bach Cantatas Volume 1
RecommendedCantatas for the Feast of St. John the Baptist & Cantatas for the First Sunday after Trinity
Joanne Lunne, Wilke te Brummelstroete, Paul Agnew, Dietrich Henschel, Gillian Keith
The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
In 2000 John Eliot Gardiner commemorated the 250th anniversary of Bach's death with theBach Cantata Pilgrimage, a year-long European tour by the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir... —
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Gramophone Magazine, March 2005, Disc of the Month
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Recording of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2005, Winner - Baroque Vocal
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Strauss: Ariadne on Naxos
RecommendedSung in English: translation by Christopher Cowell
Christine Brewer (Ariadne/Prima Donna), Robert Dean Smith (Bacchus/The Tenor), Alice Coote (Composer), Gillian Keith (Zerbinetta), Stephen Fry (Major-Domo), Alan Opie (Music Master), John Graham-Hall (Dancing Master/Scaramuccio), Roderick Williams (Harlequin), Matthew Rose (Truffaldino), Wynne Evans...
Brewer's luscious Ariadne had to be captured on disc...There's another essential performance from Alice Coote...with unflinchingly full top notes that few other genuine mezzos possess...I've... —
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Sunday Times, 2010, Albums of the Year
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Gramophone Awards, 2011, Shortlisted - Opera
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BBC Music Magazine, December 2010, Opera Choice
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Building A Library, September 2025, Recommended Recording
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As with the series as a whole, the performances are exemplary. Noseda’s familiar combination of rigour and emotional extremism is in evidence throughout...Gillian Keith is the aptly glacial-sounding... —
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BBC Music Magazine, Orchestral Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2015, Editor's Choice
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Gramophone Awards, 2016, Shortlisted - Orchestral
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J. S. Bach: Alles mit Gott und nichts ohn' ihm, BWV 1127 / Cantata Selections
RecommendedElin Manahan-Thomas (soprano)
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Elin Manahan Thomas gives an intimate and clear-headed performance. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 17th November 2008
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Bach Cantatas Volume 15
Christmas Cantatas II
Gillian Keith, Katharine Fuge, Joanne Lunn, Robin Tyson, William Towers, James Gilchrist & Peter Harvey
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Gramophone Awards, 2007, Finalist - Baroque Vocal
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JS Bach: The complete Solo Soprano Cantatas, Vol. 1
The Wedding Cantatas & Ich habe genug
Gillian Keith (soprano)
Armonico Consort, Christopher Monks
Gillian Keith’s brilliantly light soprano paired with this top-class period ensemble makes for a delightful disc —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 12
Cantatas for the Twenty-second Sunday after Trinity & Cantatas for the Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity
Susan Hamilton, Gillian Keith, Joanne Lunn (sopranos), Hilary Summers (alto), Robin Tyson (countertenor), James Gilchrist, William Kendall (tenors), Peter Harvey (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner with his characteristic sense of theatre imbues [the opening of BWV140] with urgency and anticipation. BWV 115 is masterly throughout. —
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Special offer. Vivaldi: Gloria in D major, RV589, etc.
Gillian Keith
English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Gripping choral singing, but weighty and deliberate with an expressive palette better suited to Handel's later, more grandiose choral works than his earliest. The soloist are pleasuring pure... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 23
Cantatas for the First and Second Sunday after Easter
Katharine Fuge, Gillian Keith, Daniel Taylor, William Towers, Charles Daniels, Norbert Meyn & Stephen Varcoe
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The seven cantatas here, nominally representing the works for the two Sundays after Easter, cover an unusual range from No 150 to the dazzling maturity of three pastoral cantatas from three... —
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David Matthews - From Sea to Sky
Lucie Špicková (mezzo-soprano) & Ruth Bolister (oboe), Rachel Nicholls (soprano), Gillian Keith (soprano)
Orchestra Nova Ensemble & Orchestra Nova
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