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Schubert: Choral Works. John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir. Philips 289 454 428-2.
After several successful forays into the world of instrumental...
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Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet. John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique. Philips 2289 454 454-2 (2-disc set).
It w...
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Schubert: Symphony No. 9; Song of the Spirits Over the Waters. John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir, Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra. DG 289 457-648-2....
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First, the good news about the Santa Fe Opera's just-opened new production of Christoph Willbald duck's Alceste, performed in the 1776 Paris version: While the opera gets points galore for its innovations in style and substance, Alceste doesn't see many stagings. The composer's Orfeo ed Euridice is a standard, and productions of Iphigénie en Tauride have been cropping up recently. So, thanks are due to the SFO for providing a chance to hear this infrequently produced opera.
The terms "noble" and "sublime" get tossed about with reference to Alceste. Sometimes that's code for "slow" and "static." But given the right conductor and an intent, vigorous orchestra, this needn't be the case. Kenneth Montgomery, whose alliance with the SFO goes way back, could always be relied upon to conduct a ...
...He made a fine Admète in the acclaimed John Eliot Gardiner/ Robert Wilson production a few yea...
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... was impressed was the English conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner, founder of the Monteverdi Choir an...
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...I have been to St. John's Church - I played a wedding there - and felt rea... as assistant conductor/soloist for Sir John Eliot Gardiner in Rome, Berlin, Amsterdam and London. . ...
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... Opera Recording Gluck: Alceste, Philips Sir John Eliot Gardiner, conductor; Paul Groves & Anne Soph...
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... label founded by the renowned conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner, includes thirteen volumes of the G...
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No one, not even Ken Russell, has made as many films about classical music as Tony Palmer, writer-director of documentaries or dramatizations about Benjamin Britten, Maria Callas, Yehudi Menuhin, Giacomo Puccini, Dmitri Shostakovich, Igor Stravinsky, and others, employing a variety of stylistic approaches. The Harvest of Sorrow offers footage from Rachmaninoff's silent home movies, stock footage of Russia and New York City, a visit to the Russian home from which he reluctantly fled in 1917, passages from the composer's letters and other writings read by John Gielgud, fragments of performances of his works by the orchestra and chorus of the Mariinsky Theater, conducted by Valery Gergiev, and several Russian pianists, and interviews with Gergiev and Rachmaninoff 's grandson and niece.
... presentations, with music conducted by John Eliot Gardiner and performed by the English Baroque Solo...
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... status of a modern classic is the one led by John Eliot Gardiner (Philips 434 897), which combines a...