But the result, far from being an incoherent patchwork, has a compelling musical unity coupled to a profound spirituality: a European work of art at least the equal of anything from humankind anywhere at any time.īroadcast live from St Martin-in-the-Fields and introduced by Martin Handley. As with some of the others, this one is not a new recording but comes from the. For this major project, which he probably never heard performed, Bach reworked a lot of his older music, both sacred and profane. John Eliot Gardiner returns with another release in his Bach cantata series. 1, Chorus I/II: 'Kommt, Ihr Töchter, Helft Mir Klagen'', 'St. But written towards the end of his life, it seems to have been a way of summing up all he was musically and spiritually capable of – of leaving something for posterity – after a lifetime of professional underappreciation and what must have felt like ephemeral drudgery. Matthew Passion, BWV 244 by English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner & Monteverdi Choir on Apple Music. No one knows for sure why Bach, a lifelong Lutheran, chose to make a full Latin setting of the Catholic Mass. BBC documentary written and presented by the famous English conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner. So as part of his 80th birthday celebrations, it's no surprise that he has chosen to conduct his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in a performance of the Mass in B minor, widely regarded as the summit of Bach's religious music. Bach: A Passionate Life: Directed by Cesca Eaton, David Jeffcock. John Eliot Gardiner, together with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, adds a new reading of J.S. Live at St Martin-in-the-Fields, John Eliot Gardiner celebrates his 80th birthday with a performance of Bachs B minor Mass with the Monteverdi Choir and. John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner has spent a large part of his musical life immersed in Bach's liturgical music and is acknowledged as one of its foremost interpreters. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of.

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