John Eliot Gardiner
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One of the leading figures in music performance since the second half of the 20th century, John Eliot Gardiner was born in Fontmell Magna, Dorset, England. He trained at Cambridge University before studying music at King's College London with Thurston Dart, then in Paris with Nadia Boulanger in 1967-1968. In 1964, at the age of twenty, he founded the Monteverdi Choir, which quickly established itself as a key player in the revival of Baroque music. In 1969, he made his debut at London's Promenade Concerts and conducted his first opera, Mozart's The Magic Flute, at the London Coliseum. He made his Covent Garden debut in 1973 with Gluck's Iphigénie en Tauride. In 1977, he founded the English Baroque Soloists, a period-instrument ensemble with which he recorded landmark performances of Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine (1985), Bach's B minor Mass and St John Passion (1986), Monteverdi's L'Orfeo (1987) and Handel's Messiah (1989). At the same time, he pursued an international career on modern instruments, notably in the USA, where he conducted the CBC Vancouver Symphony Orchestra between 1980 and 1983. Appointed Music Director of the Opéra de Lyon in 1983, a post he held until 1988, he radically renewed the orchestra and enjoyed great success with Mozart operas(Idoménée, Les Noces de Figaro, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni). In 1987, the University of Lyon awarded him an honorary doctorate. From 1991 to 1994, he conducted the Hamburg Radio Symphony Orchestra. In 1990, at the end of his tenure at the Handel Festival in Göttingen, he founded the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, with whom he performed Beethoven, Berlioz and Brahms on period instruments. His recording of Berlioz's Grande Messe des morts won him a Grammy Award in 1994, a year also marked by the recording of the complete Beethoven Symphonies . From 1992 onwards, he embarked on a vast cycle of Bach cantatas, culminating in the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage world tour in 2000, the recordings of which appeared on his Soli Deo Gloria label. In the years 2000 and 2010, John Eliot Gardiner pursued an intense recording and touring activity, notably with the Monteverdi Choir and landmark new releases such as Bach's Motets (2012). In 2013, the boxed set The John Eliot Gardiner Collection summarizes his work in thirty volumes. Anointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1989, he was made a Peer of the United Kingdom in 1998, Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur in 2011 and inducted into the Gramophone Hall of Fame in 2012. In 2023, after conducting the Monteverdi Choir and The English Baroque Soloists at the coronation ceremony of King Charles III, John Eliot Gardiner was accused of slapping a singer during rehearsals for a performance of Berlioz's Les Troyens . Since this incident, which led to his resignation from the three ensembles he founded, the conductor created the Constellation Choir and Orchestra, also known as Springhead Constellation, in September 2024. In the meantime, the 64-CD boxed set The Complete Recordings on Erato has been released.
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John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner Conducts French Baroque Music: Couperin, Rameau, Campra & Leclair
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John Eliot Gardiner
John Eliot Gardiner Conducts French Baroque Music: Couperin, Rameau, Campra & Leclair
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John Eliot Gardiner
Scarlatti: Stabat Mater - Clément: O Maria, vernans rosa - Gesualdo: Ave dulcissima Maria - Cavalli:
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Massenet: Scènes dramatiques, Scènes de féérie, Scènes alsaciennes & Scènes pittorresques
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Purcell: King Arthur, Music for Queen Mary, Come Ye Sons of Art, Hail! Bright Cecilia, The Indian Que
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Handel: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232 & Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV 258 "Zadok the Priest"
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Top Tracks
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- Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri / Part Two - No. 15 "Verlassener Jüngling...Doch sieh...Du hier?" featuring Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri / Part Three - No. 22 "Und wie sie... Peri, ist's wahr... Mit ihrer" featuring Gerald Finley
- Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri / Part Three - No. 21 "Jetzt sank des Abends goldner Schein" featuring Gerald Finley
- Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri / Part Three - No. 18 "Schmücket die...Auch der Geliebten...Seht da" featuring Susanna Spicer [Contralto]
- Schumann: Das Paradies und die Peri / Part Two - No. 16 "O laà mich von der Luft...Sie wankt-sie sinkt" featuring Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.97 - "Rhenish": 3. Nicht schnell by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.97 - "Rhenish": 1. Lebhaft by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Schumann: Konzertstück Op. 86 In F For 4 Horns And Orchestra - 3. Sehr lebhaft featuring Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Schumann: Konzertstück Op. 86 In F For 4 Horns And Orchestra - 2. Romanze featuring Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, Op.52: 2. Scherzo (vivo) by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Schumann: Konzertstück Op. 86 In F For 4 Horns And Orchestra - 1. Lebhaft - featuring Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Overture, Scherzo, and Finale, Op.52: 3. Finale (Allegro molto vivace) by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Schumann: Symphony No. 4 In D Minor, Op. 120 - 2. Romanze (Ziemlich langsam) by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Symphony No.4 in D minor, Op.120: 4. Etwas zurückhaltend - Langsam by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Symphony No.1 in B flat, Op.38 - "Spring": 3. Scherzo (Molto vivace) by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.97 - "Rhenish": 5. Lebhaft by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Symphony No.3 in E flat, Op.97 - "Rhenish": 4. Feierlich by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Symphony No.1 in B flat, Op.38 - "Spring": 1. Andante un poco maestoso - Allegro molto vivace by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Symphony in G minor "Zwickau" (Unfinished): 2. Andantino - Intermezzo:Allegro assai - Andantino by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Symphony No.2 in C, Op.61: 1. Sostenuto assai - Un poco più vivace - Allegro ma non troppo - Con fuo by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Schumann: Symphony No.4 In D Minor, Op.120 - Original Version (1841) - 1. Andante con moto - Allegro di molto by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Symphony No.1 in B flat, Op.38 - "Spring": 2. Larghetto by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Symphony No.2 in C, Op.61: 4. Allegro molto vivace by Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
- Monteverdi: L'incoronazione di Poppea, SV 308 / Act II - Sento un certo non so che featuring John Eliot Gardiner
