Sir John Eliot Gardiner © Sim Canetty-Clarke (Ausschnitt)
English Baroque Soloists / Monteverdi Choir & Soloists / Gardiner
Thursday
8
December
2016
19:30 – ca. 21:40
Großer Saal
Performers
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir & Soloists, Chor
Charlotte Ashley, Sopran
Hannah Morrison, Sopran
Angela Hicks, Sopran
Eleanor Minney, Mezzosopran
Reginald Mobley, Countertenor
Peter Davoren, Tenor
Hugo Hymas, Tenor
Graham Neal, Tenor
Gianluca Buratto, Bass
Jake Muffett, Bass
Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Dirigent
Programme
Johann Sebastian Bach
Messe F-Dur BWV 233
Süßer Trost, mein Jesus kömmt BWV 151 (1726)
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Magnificat Es-Dur BWV 243a (1723)
Note
Medienpartner Ö1
Subscription series
Originalklang
Links
https://monteverdi.co.uk/about-us/english-baroque-soloists
https://monteverdi.co.uk/about-us/john-eliot-gardiner
Presented by
Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft
»No half measures«
Alongside Ton Koopman and Joshua Rifkin, Sir John Eliot Gardiner is one of the most eminent living interpreters of the works of Johann Sebastian Bach. As a tribute to his musical achievements, the Wiener Konzerthausgesellschaft has awarded Gardiner, who is also president of the Leipzig Bach Archive, an honorary membership. Following in the footsteps of Nikolaus Harnoncourt in Austria a decade earlier, Sir John Eliot Gardiner was a pioneer of historically informed performance practice in the late 1960s. After setting up the »Monteverdi Choir« in 1964, he founded the »English Baroque Soloists« in 1978. With both ensembles he has since explored all sorts of different areas of so-called „ancient music“, but returned time and again to Bach. Unlike, say, Koopman, who is a keyboard player by training, Gardiner’s approach comes from the voice and from singing. Diction and language in general determines his interpretative approach, not only of vocal music of past eras. His descriptions of the »Denglisch«, in which British choirs performed Bach’s music in the postwar years are truly touching … Gardiner’s decades-long preoccupation with the works of the Leipzig cantor culminated in 2000 with the unprecedented »Bach-Pilgrimage«, a marathon tour of 90 concerts in 15 countries during which all of Bach’s cantatas were performed on the exact day of the liturgical calendar. A nightmare come true for every tour manager, but Sir John Eliot Gardiner is famous — and notorious — for accepting no half measures. And we can only be grateful for that!
