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Special offer. Monteverdi: Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria
Furio Zanasi (Ulisse), Lucile Richardot (Penelope), Krystian Adam (Telemaco), Hana Blažíková (Minerva / Fortuna), Gianluca Buratto (Tempo / Nettuno / Antinoo)
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Faced with lots of recitative and practically no arias, singers and players abandon themselves to intense arioso, jazzy cross-rhythms between poetry and continuo, and take-no-prisoners dissonances.... —
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2019, Recording of the Month
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International Opera Awards, 2019, Nominated - Complete Opera Recording
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JS Bach: Cantatas for Ascension Day
RecommendedLenneke Ruiten (soprano), Meg Bragle (contralto), Andrew Tortise (tenor), Dietrich Henschel (baritone)
The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
What a swagger Gardiner brings to the beginning of BWV37...Best of all are the ebullient choruses that bookend the oratorio, exhibiting Gardiner's innate Bachian flair, and bringing to an end... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 8th April 2013
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Building a Library, May 2019, Recommended Recording
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Bach, J S: Brandenburg Concertos Nos. 1-6 BWV1046-1051
RecommendedKatie Debretzeni
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
…a constant delight. …Kati Debretzeni deserves the highest praise: her phrasing, punctuation and inflective charm contain all the communicative apparatus of the finest oratory, bringing, to... —
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Building a Library, December 2017, First Choice
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JS Bach: Violin Concertos
Kati Debretzeni (violin)
The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Now at last here she is in the Bach concertos that have surely been waiting for her...Add to that John Eliot Gardiner’s typically firm-handed elucidatory approach to articulation and the result... —
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Record Review, 23rd November 2019, Disc of the Week
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Charpentier: Baroque Christmas
RecommendedSam Boden, Florian Störtz, Hilary Cronin, Edward Ross, Ruairi Bowen, Keri Fuge
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Christophe Rousset
Rousset nurtures suave sophistication throughout In nativitatem Domini canticum...A mirthful march is followed by the world-class choir and Rousset milking beauty and rhetorical intelligence... —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 5th December 2025
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Santiago a cappella
RecommendedRecording location: St Alban the Martyr, Holborn, London
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner
A wonderful collection brilliantly sung. Only Mariam Matrem is a true pilgrim piece, but others (Lobo's Versa est) are a revelation. —
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Presto Recording of the Week, 30th August 2010
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Bach Cantatas Volume 27
RecommendedCantatas for Whit Tuesday & Cantata for Trinity Sunday
Lisa Larsson, Nathalie Stutzmann, Christoph Genz, Stephen Loges, Ruth Holton, Daniel Taylor, Paul Agnew, Peter Harvey
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
These performances do full justice to such genius —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Choral Award Winner
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Bach, J S: St John Passion, BWV245
Mark Padmore (Evangelist/tenor arias), Hanno Müller-Brachmann (Jesus), Peter Harvey (Pilatus/bass arias), Joanna Lunn (soprano - 'Ich folge dir gleichfells'), Katharine Fuge (soprano - Ancilla and 'Zerfliesse, mein Herze'), Bernarda Fink (alto), Julian Clarkson (Petrus), Robert Murray (Servus I),...
To borrow a phrase used more than one by Gardiner, his is a reading which lives viscerally in the 'here and now'...throughout, the Monteverdi Choir is typically alert and tautly-sprung. Crowd... —
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BBC Music Magazine, June 2011, Disc of the month
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Gramophone Magazine, July 2011, Editor's Choice
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JS Bach: Magnificat in E flat and Missa in F
Hannah Morrison (soprano), Eleanor Minney (mezzo), Reginald Mobley (countertenor), Hugo Hymas (tenor), Gianluca Buratto (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner’s step-out soloists are consistently strong, and their varied contributions mirror the alluring array of affects achieved by the ensemble as a whole. The momentum, clarity and texture... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2017, Editor's Choice
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Diapason d’Or, December 2017, Nouveauté
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Brahms: Symphony No. 2
Nathalie Stutzmann (contralto)
The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
In the Second Symphony the period strings' lighter articulation gives Brahms's rhythms a sprightlier feel than in many modern sessions. …in Gesand der Geister Gardiner avoids any awkward episodic... —
