Bach by John Eliot Gardiner6/27/2023 Over the thirty-odd years since its release, Gardiner and his musicians have performed the work all over the world, and now (well into his eighth decade and with the experience of the mammoth ‘Cantata Pilgrimage’ of 2000 under his belt) he’s decided to record it afresh, this time live in concert rather than in the studio: last year, he and the Monteverdis (who celebrated their fiftieth anniversary in 2014) embarked on a six-month European tour with the work (taking in venues including the Barbican, the Paris Philharmonie, and the Amsterdam Concertgebouw), with all the singers performing from memory. Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s landmark recording of the St Matthew Passion with his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in the late 1980s is still widely regarded as one of the most revelatory accounts of the work on disc for its tautness, dramatic energy and innate underlying understanding of the work’s imposing architecture.
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