Personal sins and their forgiveness are central to the cantatas performed live as part of the Monteverdi Choir’s epic Bach pilgrimage in Potsdam. The message registers with heartbreaking force in bass ...

“Ich habe genug,” Bach’s Cantata No. 82, is commonly rendered in English as “I am content.” At the cantata’s center is a lullaby of consoling sweetness, generosity of spirit and somnolent blessedness, ...

John Eliot Gardiner's spectacular falling out with his record company Deutsche Grammophon made the news pages, and also imperilled his ambition to celebrate the millennium and mark the 250th ...

LEIPZIG, Germany — What will Bachfest Leipzig do for an encore? You had to wonder almost from the start of this year’s installment, last Friday. The festival ...

Part of John Eliot Gardiner’s mammoth Bach Cantatas project with his English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir. This set of cantatas, released this week, was recorded live at the church of St.

LONDON — Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s self-produced recording of Bach cantatas won record of the year honors Thursday at the annual Gramophone Awards. The recording, on Gardiner’s Soli Deo Gloria label, ...

Choosing the "best" of Johann Sebastian Bach's nearly 200 sacred cantatas is a daunting task, as each one seems perfect. But three leading Bach experts took up the challenge. Peter Wollny, director of ...

Concerto for Flute, Violin, Harpsichord and Strings Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor English Baroque Soloists The Cantata Pilgrimage has inevitably served up one or two ...

Bach Cantatas Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/Gardiner (Soli Deo Gloria SDG 101 & 104) (2 CDs) In 2000, John Eliot Gardiner led the Monteverdi Choir on a 93-concert, 198-work pilgrimage ...

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner Soli Dei Gloria SDG 162(2 CDs) **** The survey of Bach's cantatas by the Orchestra of St Cecilia's Dublin has taken 10 years. John Eliot ...

Cantata No. 144, 'Nimm, was dein ist, und gehe hin Johann Sebastian Bach, Composer English Baroque Soloists John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor Monteverdi Choir Cantata No. 84, 'Ich bin vergnügt mit meinem ...

A concert featuring two of J S Bach’s solo cantatas at the vast Royal Albert Hall in this year’s BBC Proms may at first glance seem at odds with their sacred, intimate nature and thoroughly Lutheran, ...