Gardiner Bach Cantatas
"When we embarked on the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in Weimar on Christmas Day 1999 we had no real sense of how the project would turn out. There were no precedents, no earlier attempts to perform all Bach’s surviving church cantatas on the appointed feast day and all within a single year, for us to draw on or to guide us. Just as in planning to scale a mountain or cross and ocean, you can make meticulous provision, calculate your route and get all the equipment in order, in the end you have to deal with whatever the elements - both human and physical - throw at you at any given moment.
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Bach Cantatas Volume 10
RecommendedCantatas for the Nineteenth Sunday after Trinity and for the Feast of the Reformation
Joanne Lunn, William Towers, James Gilchrist, Peter Harvey
The Monteverdi Choir & The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
…Gardiner's lively and articulate responses to Bach's dance rhythms… refresh and enliven the music, often in a quite distinctive way. The mighty fugal chorus of Ein Feste Burg (BWV 80) comes... —
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Building a Library, September 2009, First Choice
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Building a Library, March 2010, First Choice
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Gramophone Magazine, January 2006, Disc of the Month
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Presto Favourites, Recommended Recording
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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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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 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 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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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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Bach Cantatas Volume 24
Cantatas for the Third and Fourth Sundays after Easter
Brigitte Geller, William Towers, Mark Padmore, Julian Clarkson, Robin Tyson, James Gilchrist, Stephen Varcoe
The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner
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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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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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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. —
