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Bach Cantatas Volume 18
Cantatas for Christmas Day, Cantatas for the First Sunday after Epiphany & Cantatas for the Feast of Epiphany
Claron McFadden (soprano), Bernarda Fink (mezzo), Sally Bruce-Payne (alto), Michael Chance (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Christopher Genz, Dietrich Henschel (baritones)
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The two strongly contrasting arias [of BWV 63], both duets, are expressively sung but it is Bernarda Fink's beautifully controlled, extended recitative which stands out for its tender articulation...James... —
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Gramophone Magazine, December 2010, Editor's Choice
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JS Bach: Cantatas: The complete box-set
RecommendedRecorded live during the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage (2000)
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Dr Koopman's musical offering comes hard on the heels of that of John Eliot Gardiner, whose Bach Cantata Pilgrimage marked the Millennium with a complete set of the cantatas, now available on... —
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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Bach Cantatas Volume 3
Cantatas for the Fourth and Fifth Sundays after Trinity
Magdalena Kozená, Nathalie Stutzmann, Paul Agnew, Nicolas Teste, Joanne Lunn, William Towers, Kobie van Rensburg, Peter Harvey
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner is a master of delivering these hard enigmatic pieces with renewed logic and understanding. —
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Gramophone Magazine, May 2008, Disc of the Month
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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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Brahms: Symphony No. 1
The Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall, this first instalment in a complete Brahms cycle may not offer the technically immaculate playing of some rivals but outstrips most of them in its immediacy.... —
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BBC Music Magazine Awards, 2009, Orchestral Finalist
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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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Brahms: Symphony No. 4
Recorded live at Royal Festival Hall, London, 5-8 October 2008
The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
everything seems in focus: not just the tempo, but also the rhythmic drive and urgency seem absolutely right in the third and fourth movements...This performance gives a lively sense of what... —
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Gramophone Magazine, November 2010, Editor's Choice
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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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Brahms: Symphony No. 3
The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
…urgent, magnificently angry… This is Gardiner at his penetrating, combative best, making contact with the music's heartbeat in a way that sounds both radical and natural… —
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The exotic harmonies in both expose the family resemblance between the styles of the two composers (though Gesualdo is even more experimental in his secular music) and the Monteverdi Choir is... —
