LONDON — Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s self-produced recording of Bach cantatas won record of the year honors Thursday at the annual Gramophone Awards. The recording, on Gardiner’s Soli Deo Gloria label, ...

Bach’s three surviving cantatas for Jubilate Sunday, the third after Easter, are fully understood and articulated by Gardiner in his ‘Bach Pilgrimage’ performances. Special things take wing in Weinen, ...

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists/John Eliot Gardiner Soli Dei Gloria SDG 162(2 CDs) **** The survey of Bach's cantatas by the Orchestra of St Cecilia's Dublin has taken 10 years. John Eliot ...

SDG's series deriving from John Gardiner's epic 2000 pilgrimage around European churches performing Bach cantatas with the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists reaches Genoa and Greenwich ...

Sir John Eliot Gardiner could easily divide his professional career into "before BCP" and after "BCP." At the close of the 20th Century, Gardiner began the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage with the bulk of the ...

LEIPZIG, Germany — What will Bachfest Leipzig do for an encore? You had to wonder almost from the start of this year’s installment, last Friday. The festival ...

As a listener and sometime performer, I feel the same anxiety about living long enough to experience Bach's 200-plus sacred cantatas, the largest, most ingeniously varied and certainly greatest body ...

Every Easter Bach’s masterpieces, the St John and St Matthew Passions, connect with millions of listeners worldwide. While the drama and spiritual depths of Bach’s Passions continue to attract ...