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, ...

Bach’s three surviving cantatas for Jubilate Sunday, the third after Easter, are fully understood and articulated by Gardiner in his ‘Bach Pilgrimage’ performances. Special things take wing in Weinen, ...

SDG's series deriving from John Gardiner's epic 2000 pilgrimage around European churches performing Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists reaches Genoa and Greenwich ...

It never happens often enough, but now and then, a subject gets the book it deserves. So it is with John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, a biography so thoughtful, ...

Things look a lot less cheerful the following Sunday with Schau, lieber Gott (No 153) and Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid (No 58), both saturated by an echt-Lutheran sense of anxiety and oppression.

As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...

LEIPZIG, Germany — What will Bachfest Leipzig do for an encore? You had to wonder almost from the start of this year’s installment, last Friday. The festival ...

Johann Sebastian Bach lost both of his parents when he was nine and watched ten of his children die young. He was, in other words, well acquainted with death, and may have been uncommonly sensitive to ...

It's rather apt that John Eliot Gardiner's marathon cycle of Bach cantatas should finally be completed with those written for Ascension Day, recorded at St Giles Cripplegate 12 years after the ...