Conductor

Sir John Eliot Gardiner leads two of his period ensembles in a remarkable moment for Carnegie Hall history: our first complete performance of Handel’s L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato since 1895, described by an attending critic as “one of the greatest and most completely beautiful choral works ever written” (The Sun). Composed during Handel’s gradual transition from opera to oratorio, and based on the poetry of John Milton, it’s an enchanting work with notable solos for singers and instrumentalists.

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English Baroque Soloists

Carnegie Hall

Sir John Eliot Gardiner leads the English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir in music for which he is most renowned: J. S. Bach’s Mass in B Minor, a work widely considered a pinnacle not just of choral music, but of Western music as a whole. Gardiner sees “the mass as a compendium of all the different styles and approaches that J. S. Bach took across 30 or 40 years of music making.” With his esteemed period ensembles, he brings this music to life with a vibrancy made possible by a lifetime of passionate exploration and performance.

One of the world’s most innovative musicians, Sir John Eliot Gardiner founded the Monteverdi Choir to share Italian music with a British audience accustomed to the English choral tradition. Over the next 60 years the choir has grown to include an extensive repertoire encompassing music from the Renaissance through 20th century classical music, earning Gardiner a knighthood and the honor of performing at King Charles III’s coronation. Ahead of a performance at Carnegie Hall, Gardiner will conduct the Monteverdi Choir in a performance of Bach’s Mass in B Minor at McCarter with the English Baroque Soloists.

Bach: Mass In B Minor

Alexander Hall

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.

Granada Theatre

Nahezu zeitgleich sind die Werke von Georg Friedrich Händel und Johann Sebastian Bach entstanden, die John Eliot Gardiner mit den English Baroque Soloists und dem Monteverdi Choir beim Musikfest Berlin präsentiert. Beeindruckende Zeugnisse aus dem Frühwerk der beiden großen Barockmeister!

John Eliot Gardiner

Conductor

Events

Oct 26, 2023

English Baroque Soloists · Carnegie Hall

Oct 25, 2023

English Baroque Soloists · Carnegie Hall

Oct 23, 2023

Bach: Mass In B Minor · McCarter Theatre Center

Apr 12, 2022

English Baroque Soloists · CAMA

Sep 3, 2021

Händel | Bach · Musikfest Berlin

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