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Bach Cantatas Volume 26
Cantatas for Whit Sunday
Lisa Larsson, Nathalie Stutzmann, Derek Lee Ragin, Christoph Genz & Panajotis Iconomou
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The seven cantatas assembled here provide a breathtaking array of styles, expressive ranges and music whose variety is seemingly infinite. Gardiner directs all with affection and assurance…The... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 6
Cantatas for the Twelfth Sunday Trinity & Cantata for the Thirteenth Sunday Trinity
Katharine Fuge, Robin Tyson, Christoph Genz & Peter Harvey, Gillian Keith, Nathalie Stutzmann, Christoph Genz & Jonathan Brown
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The performances are outstanding throughout - Tyson's tour do force of breath-control in the second aria of BWV 35; Harvey's uninhibited gladness, 'Freden', in BWV 69a; time standing still as,... —
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Beethoven: Symphonies Nos. 2 & 8
Recorded in London, November 2013
Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et Romantique, John Eliot Gardiner
Many of [Beethoven's] markings seem improbably fast, and they have proved to be controversial, to say the least; but John Eliot Gardiner takes them seriously and there are some hair-raisingly... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 5
Cantatas for the Eighth Sunday after Trinity & Cantatas for the Tenth Sunday after Trinity
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The Monterverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists are technically superb and expressive throughout… …Gardiner's expressive range, unfettered by fashionable dogma, achieves compelling results... —
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Johann Christoph Bach: Welt, gute Nacht
Julia Doyle, Katharine Fuge, Clare Wilkinson, Jeremy Budd, James Gilchrist, Nicholas Mulroy, Matthew Brook & Peter Harvey
The English Baroque Soloists, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Bach of any generation from Gardiner's eminently engaged and engaging forces is self-recommending; yet for its rarity value alone Welt, gute Nacht is as important a release as that of a B minor... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 2
Cantatas for the Second Sunday after Trinity & Cantatas for the Third Sunday after Trinity
Lisa Larsson (soprano), Daniel Taylor (countertenor), James Gilchrist (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
...this vividly scored piece of theatre [BWV21] places both voices and a colourful instrumental group in urgent dialogue. We are drawn into this right from the opening Sinfonia...Among competing... —
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Special offer. Handel, Bach & Scarlatti: Live at Milton Court
Esther Brazil (mezzo-soprano)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Bach Cantatas Volume 14
Christmas Cantatas I
Katharine Fuge, Joanne Lunn (sopranos), Robin Tyson, William Towers (altos), James Gilchrist (tenor), Peter Harvey (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
James Gilchrist and Peter Harvey negotiate virtuoso arias with panache; likewise Katharine Fuge's singing is a constant pleasure in BWV91 and 121. The Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque... —
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The 16th and 17th centuries were turbulent times in England...The works on this disc expose those liturgical struggles very clearly...The fairly large forces tend to produce an unusually robust... —
