Posts Tagged ‘ John Eliot Gardiner ’
Sir John Eliot Gardiners Bach pilgrimage – A 60-minute film of Gardiners Millennium Bach pilgrimage tour with excerpts from many other Cantatas, recorded in Weimar, Leipzig, Hamburg, Eisenach, Arnstadt, Blythburgh, Kirkwall, Iona, St Davids, Cologne & New York completes an exceptional title and documents Gardiners remarkable dedication to the music of J. S. Bach.
The Monteverdi Choir was founded in 1964 by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for a performance of the Monteverdi Vespers (1610) in King’s College Chapel, Cambridge. A specialist Baroque ensemble, the Choir has become famous for its stylistic conviction and extensive repertoire, encompassing music from the early Baroque period to Classical music of the 20th century. They often appear with John Eliot Gardiner’s orchestras, the English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique.
The English Baroque Soloists was formed in 1978 by Sir John Eliot Gardiner and has since established itself as one of the world’s great period-instrument chamber orchestras.
Bach Cantata Pilgramage – When we embarked on the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage in Weimar on Christmas Day 1999 we had no real sense of how the project would turn out. There were no precedents, no earlier attempts to perform all Bach’s surviving church cantatas on the appointed feast day and all within a single year, for us to draw on or to guide us. Just as in planning to scale a mountain or cross and ocean, you can make meticulous provision, calculate your route and get all the equipment in order, in the end you have to deal with whatever the elements – both human and physical – throw at you at any given moment.
“Bach is probably the only composer whose musical output is so rich,
so challenging to the performers and so spiritually uplifting
to both performer and listener alike, that one would
gladly spend a year in his exclusive company.”“I believe that Bach’s music carries a universal message of
hope and faith which can touch anybody, irrespective of their
culture, religion or musical knowledge.”“Taken together his cantatas comprise
some of the most consistently beautiful music ever to have
been composed, a corpus of work which counts as one of the
great glories of European music.” Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Visita Guiada é um programa de televisão e de rádio que dá a conhecer o Património Cultural português.
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Ana Margarida Lopes
O Universo Numa Casca de Noz 