classical music: John Eliot Gardiner

classical music: John Eliot Gardiner

classical music:

John Eliot Gardiner

Essential Baroque

Decca, 2002

High-quality, marvelously varied intro to baroque music
I am buying this as the perfect gift for Russian and Chinese scientist friends. They have knowledge of classical music but perhaps not much about baroque music, which achieved special popularity in the U.S. during the 1970's and 1980's. Russians seem to have more ...

The Baroque Christmas Album

Johann Sebastian Bach, Marc-Antoine Charpentier, ...

Archiv Produktion, 2005

5-PLUS Stars
There are not many things in life that I would describe as just Gorgeous -- but this album is definitely one of them. The selections, the arrangements, the production quality, all are clean, yet lush -- simultaneously light and rich. The effect is wonderful. This ...

Juliian Bream Ultimate Guitar Collection

Mateo Albeniz, Francis Cutting, ...

RCA, 1999

One well worth the price of two
This two cd set is an odd juxtaposition. The first cd consists of a sampler of Bream's career output - but without (and I believe the omission is disgraceful) any acknowledgement of Bream's significant contribution toward the creation of a truly 20th century concert ...

Bach - Christmas Oratorio / Gardiner

Johann Sebastian Bach

Archiv Produktion, 1990

an essential part of my yearly Christmas experience
It surprises me that a number of people here have given this splendid recording negative reviews, but that is , I guess, proof that people's tastes and expectations are different. What I expect from any Bach performance by (Sir) John Eliot are forward-moving tempi ...

Brahms: Symphony # 1; Bergrabnisgesang, Op. 13; Schicksalslied, Op. 54; Mendelssohn- Mitten wir in Leben sind ...
John Eliot Gardiner, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique, ...

SDG, 2008

Following on from John Eliot Gardiner's critically acclaimed recordings of the symphonies of Beethoven and Schumann, SDG are proud to b e releasing the first disc in a new series exporing teh music of Johannes Brahms. Recorded live during last autumn's Brahms and his antecedents tour, and showcasing the four symphonies as well as Brahms' major ...

Bach - Christmas Oratorio / Claron McFadden, Bernarda Fink, Christoph Genz, Dietrich Henschel, John Eliot ...

Bernarda Fink, Claron McFadden

Arthaus Musik, 2005

Bach's Christmas Oratorio from John Eliot Gardiner and Colleagues
As most music-lovers know, John Eliot Gardiner gave himself the remarkable task of performing and recording all of Bach's sacred choral/orchestral works in one year, going from church to cathedral to kirk throughout Europe. Not only that, he and the Monteverdi Choir ...

Bach: Magnificat, BWV. 243; Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen

Johann Sebastian Bach, John Eliot Gardiner, ...

Philips, 1990

Bach's Magnificat is Here Magnificent!
This is a magnificent recording of Bach's Magnificat. The sound quality is superb, the soloists and choir clear and moving, and the orchestra flawless in execution. In fact, the Gardiner series of recordings (the Mass in B minor, St. Matthew's Passion, St. John's ...

Mozart for Your Mind

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Colin Davis, ...

Philips, 1995

Wonderful Selection of not as famous but good works!
The two works on this CD that are most known are The Magic Flute Overture, which is filled with brilliance from measure one to the end, and the opening piece to the movie Amadeus, the G Minor Symphony. These two pieces are superb but just because they are more known, ...

The Opera Album

Maria Callas, Placido Domingo

EMI Classics, 2002

Nessun dorma!
This set of two CDs is a great way to listen to some highlights from many different operas when you aren't in the mood to listen to a full opera. Many of your favorite arias are here, such as Nessun Dorma, Habanera, Non piu andrai etc. But what I liked most about it is ...

Bach - Mass in B minor / Argenta, Nichols, Chance, Stafford, Milner, W. Evans, Gardiner

Johann Sebastian Bach, John Eliot Gardiner, ...

Archiv Produktion, 1990

Gardiner's Masterpiece
This is the greatest recording Of the greatest work Of the greatest composer That ever was. If I am biased John and Johann have made me so.

Bach - Cantatas BWV 140, 147 / Holton, Chance, Rolfe Johnson, Varcoe, The Monterverdi Choir, The English ...

Johann Sebastian Bach

Archiv Produktion, 2000

a voice teacher and early music fan
STUNNING RENDITIONS OF TWO OF BACH'S MOST ATTRACTIVE CANTATAS! Without a doubt these are two of Bach's most attractive cantatas, and fortunately for us are performed by the very excellent Monteverdi Choir under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner, who is probably ...

Mozart - Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) / Jean-Louis Thamin · John Eliot Gardiner · Bryn Terfel ...

Rodney Gilfry, Hillevi Martinpelto

Deutsche Grammophon, 2001

Marriage of Figaro DVD, Gardiner
I would give this DVD 9 stars if I could.

Händel: Messiah

Robert Hale, Timothy Mason, ...

Philips, 2003

a voice teacher and early music fan
NO VICTORIAN SANCTIMONIOUS POMP IN THIS 'MESSIAH'" SAYS GARDINER. John Eliot Gardiner's period instrument version can be confidently mentioned in the same breath with any of the great "Messiah" recordings of the past. In fact, in many ways, at the time of this ...

Mozart: Great Mass in C minor /McNair * Montague * Rolfe Johnson * Hauptmann * English Baroque Soloists * ...

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, John Eliot Gardiner, ...

Philips, 1990

Among the Finest of the Available Recordings
Mozart's MASS IN C MINOR K 427 can be a mixed bag if not under the hands of the right conductor. The work itself is spotty with elements of radiant, exalting beauty along side some (pardon the thought) filler: Mozart himself was aware of this, as the work is ...

Bach: Advent Cantatas

Olaf Bär, Johann Sebastian Bach, ...

Deutsche Grammophon, 2000

SAVING THE GENTILES
These performances date from 1992, and are thus not part of the famous and successful 'pilgrimage' that Gardiner and his colleagues undertook in the millennium year to celebrate the 250th anniversary of Bach's death. The presentation of the disc leans over backwards to ...