
The Bottom Line: As Gardiner remakes a lot of his […]
After decades of studying, listening to, and performing Bach’s choral
In 2013 a 55-CD collection from Archiv Produktion surveyed the
Mozart spent a good seven years, on and off, working
You would do better with Gardiner’s perfectly competent 1986 St. John Passion (Archiv) with these same choral/orchestral forces and an equally fine lineup of soloists
First, to dispel any confusion: Although this latest installment of John Eliot Gardiner’s “Bach Pilgrimage” series looks like a new release, it’s not. It is
There are some of Bach’s finest choral movements among the five cantatas featured on these two CDs, works intended for the second and third Sundays
It shouldn’t be surprising that the quality of performance and sound throughout John Eliot Gardiner’s ambitious year-long Bach “pilgrimage” varies from cantata to cantata and
John Eliot Gardiner’s “Bach Pilgrimage” has had its rough spots and its brighter moments, this two-disc set being among the latter, owing much to its
These performances were the final ones in John Eliot Gardiner’s “Bach Cantata Pilgrimage”, a project that began on Christmas Day, 1999 in Weimar, Germany and