Almost inexcusably absent from the pantheon of great conductors appearing in Santa Barbara during CAMA’s long history, Sir John Eliot Gardiner will at last grace the Granada stage directing the English Baroque Soloists, the preeminent period-instrument chamber ensemble founded by the maestro himself in 1978. Arguably the foremost living interpreter of 17th‑ and 18th‑century choral and orchestral repertoire, Sir John Eliot Gardiner is also the Founder and Director of the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. With these and other ensembles, he has recorded more than 250 albums; among them are benchmark recordings of the Monteverdi Vespers and Bach B‑minor Mass, the complete Beethoven symphony cycle on period instruments, and each and every Bach sacred cantata. In his spare time, the prodigious maestro runs an organic farm at Springhead near Fontmell Magna in North Dorset.

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English Baroque Soloists

Granada Theatre

Pioneers in historically informed performance, conductor John Eliot Gardiner and his esteemed English Baroque Soloists are best known to US audiences through their meticulously conceived, award-winning recordings of Monteverdi, Bach, Beethoven, and dramatic works of the Baroque and Classical eras. On an exceedingly rare stateside tour, Gardiner, a two-time Grammy winner, leads the period-instrument ensemble he founded more than 40 years ago in a bracing program of Mozart and Haydn.</p>
<p>Haydn’s well-loved <em>Drumroll</em> Symphony is a study in drama and suspense; Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante is a joyful conversation between violin and viola soloists and the orchestra; and the composer’s Symphony No. 39 is an ebullient late-period opus that reveals supreme craft and ingenuity.

Kati Debretzeni

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