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Bach Cantatas Volume 7
Cantatas for the Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity and for the Feast of St Michael and All Angels
Malin Hartelius, Robin Tyson, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey & Richard Wyn Roberts
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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Bach Cantatas Volume 9
Cantatas for the 17th Sunday after Trinity & Cantatas for the 18th Sunday after Trinity
Katharine Fuge (soprano), Frances Bourne (alto), Mark Padmore (tenor) & Stephan Loges (bass), Humphries (alto), Robin Tyson (alto), Nathalie Stutzmann (alto), Christoph Genz (tenor) & Gotthold Schwarz (bass)
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
…the opening chorus of BWV 148… It's just the kind of piece at which the Monterverdi Choir surpasses its rivals, and the instrumental support from the English Baroque Soloists is splendid.... —
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Schubert: Symphony No. 5 and Brahms Serenade No. 2
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
This performance glories in the pungent qualities of Brahms’s orchestration and there is no denying the infectiousness they capture in the faster movements in particular. There is much to admire... —
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JS Bach: Easter Oratorio & Actus tragicus
Hannah Morrison (soprano), Meg Bragle (mezzo), Nicholas Mulroy (tenor) & Peter Harvey (bass)
Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
For all the Pascal jubilation of the Oratorio, it's the simple, unaffected solace of the Actus Tragicus, however, that steals the show...Gardiner slims down his forces from the 23 voices of... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 16
Christmas Cantatas III
Gillian Keith, Katharine Fuge, Joanne Lunn. Daniel Taylor, James Gilchrist & Peter Harvey
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
The programme on this CD concluded John Eliot Gardiner's Bach Cantata Pilgrimage. The earliest piece is Tritt auf die Glaubens-bahn, BWV 152… Gardiner captures its intimacy and tenderness,... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 8
Cantatas for the Fifteenth & Sixteenth Sundays after Trinity
Malin Hartelius, Robin Tyson, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey, Katharine Fuge, Mark Padmore, Thomas Guthrie
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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Bach Cantatas Volume 19
Cantatas for the Second and Fourth Sundays after Epiphany
Joanne Lunn, Richard Wyn Roberts, Julian Podger, Gerald Finley, Katharine Fuge, William Towers, Paul Agnew, Peter Harvey
The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
Gardiner's performance of Ach Gott, wie manchesHerzeleid bends the ear towards the power of doleful dissonance, as the opening chorus wends its way through the 'narrow path of sorrow' with all... —
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Bach Cantatas Volume 21
Cantatas for Quinquagesima, Annunciation, Palm Sunday, Oculi
Ruth Holton, Claudia Schubert, James Oxley, Peter Harvey, Malin Hartelius, Nathalie Stutzmann, James Gilchrist
The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, The Choirs of Clare and Trinity Colleges, Cambridge, John Eliot Gardiner
Perhaps most appealing in Gardiner's direction is the unfailing delight he takes in refreshing Bach's dance rhythms without ever trivialising textural content. —
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Love is come again
Music for the Springhead Easter Play
The Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Solo and ensemble singing of exemplary quality adorn a sequence full of contrast: from medieval monody via all kinds of early polyphony (Gesualdo, Cornysh, Tavener, Morley, Byrd, Tallis, Gabrieli,... —
