Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Monteverdi Choir, Sir John Eliot Gardiner: Bach Motets

by C. Michael Bailey
February 22, 2014

Sir John Eliot Gardiner could easily divide his professional career into “before BCP" and after “BCP." At the close of the 20th Century, Gardiner began the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with the bulk of the project taking place throughout the millennial year 2000. With his Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, Gardiner performed and recorded all of Bach's surviving church cantatas over the course of the year, in proper liturgical order and at the same time marking the 250th anniversary of ...