He holds two GRAMMY Awards and has received more Gramophone Classical Music Awards than any other living artist. His broad repertoire is illustrated by his extensive catalogue of award-winning recordings with the Monteverdi ensembles and other leading orchestras on both major labels and his own Soli Deo Gloria label.

Gardiner is a regular guest of the world’s leading symphony orchestras, including the London Symphony Orchestra, Symphonieorchester des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Gewandhausorchester Leipzig, conducting repertoire from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. His work as Founder and Artistic Director of the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists (EBS), and Orchestra Révolutionnaire et Romantique (ORR) has made him a key figure both in the early music revival and historically informed performance practice. John Eliot Gardiner is revered as one of the world’s most innovative and dynamic musicians and is a leader in the contemporary musical world.

“Thirty years on, Gardiner’s take on the mass is if anything more exuberant, more joyful… all concerned seem to share this vision, especially the soloists who step forward from the choir. From the opening collective cry of “Kyrie” to the winding fugues and ultimate radiance of “Dona nobis pacem,” the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists reveal all the variety of a work that encompasses wild virtuosity, immeasurable pathos, and exuberant joy. Through such exploration, he sought to make sense of the world in which he lived and whatever lay behind it. In his setting of the Latin text of the mass, Bach’s resolve was not merely to mime the gestures of belief and to interpret doctrine via music of his own invention, but to extend the very range of music’s possibilities. engagements - to conduct the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in two distinct programs: Bach’s Mass in B minor and Handel’s L’Allegro.īach’s Mass in B minor, composed towards the end of his life, serves as a compendium of all the styles and approaches he took throughout his decades of music-making. Revered as one of the world’s most innovative and dynamic musicians, Sir John Eliot Gardiner returns to the Harris Theater - one of just two U.S.

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