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Monteverdi Choir
12+ albums
John Elliott Gardiner20th Century ClassicalClassicalbaroqueJohn Eliot Gardiner
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The Monteverdi Choir was founded in 1964 by Sir John Eliot Gardiner for a performance of the Vespro della Beata Vergine in King's College Chapel, Cambridge. A specialist Baroque ensemble, the Choir has become famous for its stylistic conviction and extensive repertoire, encompassing music from the Renaissance period to Classical music of the 20th century. They often appear with John Eliot Gardiner's orchestras, the English Baroque Soloists and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. In 2000 the Choir, with the English Baroque Soloists, undertook an ambitious tour, the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, in which it performed almost all of Johann Sebastian Bach's church cantatas in more than 60 churches in Europe, the UK and the US to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the composer's death. The dates followed the occasions of the liturgical year for which Bach had assigned his compositions. Some of the churches are connected to Bach's life. Recordings of a number of the cantatas were released by Deutsche Grammophon on the Archiv label. However, most of the recordings made during the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage have been released in 28 volumes on Gardiner's own label, Soli Deo Gloria (recordings released by Deutsche Grammophon will not be released again on Soli Deo Gloria). The series was completed in 2012 with a live recording in London of cantatas for Ascension Day that were performed in Salisbury during the pilgrimage, but were not recorded for technical reasons. It is possible that som
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Gloria : Vivaldi: Gloria - Domine Deus, Rex coelestis
2022Ihr aber seid nicht fleischlich
1593The Lamb
1474Magnificat In D Major, BWV 243 : J.S. Bach: Magnificat In D Major, BWV 243 - 1. Magnificat anima mea
1395Sanctus
946Komm, Jesu, komm, BWV 229
897Gloria : Vivaldi: Gloria: Domine Deus, Rex coelestis
848O quam gloriosum
789Shallow Brown - Sailor's sea-chanty
7710Agnus Dei
76albums
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Vivaldi: Gloria / Handel: Dixit Dominus
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Bach: Motets
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Bach, J.S.: Cantatas Sacred Masterpieces
J.S. Bach: Motets
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J.S. Bach: Mass in B Minor, BWV 232
Handel: Messiah
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Choral Recital: Monteverdi Choir - MORALES / VICTORIA, T.L. / CLEMENTS NON PAPA / MOUTON (Pilgrimage to Santiago)
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Bruckner: Mass in D minor; Motets
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Mozart Collection
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Fauré: Requiem / Debussy: Trois chansons de Charles d'Orléans / Saint-Saëns: Calme des nuits
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The Essentials: Bach
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J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio