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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Johann Sebastian Bach had an explosively productive year when he started working as Thomaskantor in Leipzig. This DW Festival Concert episode from the Bach Festival presents some of his creative, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach Canatata Pilgrimage is now available as a complete box set. Released by Soli Deo Gloria and featuring a whopping 56 CDs in total, the collection marks the first time the ...

To mark his 75th birthday John Eliot Gardiner conducted three programmes of Bach cantatas in a weekend devoted to the composer. What better way to celebrate? Gardiner performed the whole cycle of more ...

On Site Opera, New York's pioneering opera company rooted in site-specific opera experiences, is thrilled to announce its upcoming production of The Immersive Coffee Cantata Experience—a reimagining ...

Cantata denotes, simply, music ‘to be sung’, as opposed to ‘sonata’, music ‘to be played’. Ironic, then, that the composer who took the sacred cantata to its apogee, Johann Sebastian Bach, rarely used ...