John Eliot Gardiner Essentials
Apple Music Classical
For over 50 years, Gardiner has made music with his Monteverdi Choir, injecting dynamism and drama into choral works from the Renaissance to the present day with classic accounts of the Monteverdi Vespers, Bach's Passions and cantatas, Beethoven's Missa solemnis and the Verdi Requiem along the way. With his orchestras—the English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique—he explored everything from Mozart and Beethoven symphonies to Berlioz and Brahms. He is a passionate Francophile, and has a winning way with lighter fare such as Chabrier and Offenbach.
A Song in Two Parts and Chorus, "If Love's a Sweet Passion"
No. 1, Kommt, ihr Töchter, helft mir klagen
No. 29, O Mensch, bewein dein Sünde groß
No. 68, Wir setzen uns mit Tränen nieder
Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, D. 714 (Goethe) - 2nd version for 8-part male chorus and string orchestra
R. Schumann: Symphony in G Minor - "Zwickau"
II. Andantino - Intermezzo - Allegro Assai - Andantino
Sospiri, Op. 70 - Adagio for Strings, Harp and Organ, Op. 70
IV. Chorus. Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen
Gebet, D. 815
Monteverdi Choir, A. Robert Johnson, Lynette Alcantara, Angela Kazimierczuk, Noel Mann, John Eliot Gardiner, Malcolm Bilson
Part I: Chorale: Herr, unser Herrscher (Chorus)
Part II: Chorale: Ruht wohl, ihr heiligen Gebeine (Chorus)
I. Chor: "Wachet auf, ruft uns die Stimme"
Richard Earle, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner, Anthony Robson, English Baroque Soloists
II. Chorus. "The ways of Zion do mourn"