Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Complete Deutsche Grammophon & Archiv Produktion Recordings (104 CD Box Set)
The Monteverdi Choir that was at the very heart of these ensembles had been founded in 1964, followed in 1978 by the English Baroque Soloists with whom he made many pioneering recordings of music ranging from the early Baroque to Mozart and Haydn. Recordings which have lost none of their brilliance in the course of the intervening decades. They retain their value not least through the outstanding soloists that Gardiner was able to engage, many of them still at the start of their illustrious careers. Gardiner has always been a complete musician, and so it was inevitable that he would want to perform the music of the nineteenth century on instruments from that period with the result that in 1989 he founded the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, a name that points to the tradition established by the conductor François-Antoine Habeneck. Gardiner’s recordings of Bach, Beethoven, and Schumann not least, in the present edition are milestones in the history of interpretation. His recordings will continue to endure: in their energy-laden delight in making music, in their spiritualized expressivity and in their gripping vitality.
CD 1–21
Bach: Christmas Oratorio, St. Matthew Passion, St. John Passion, Mass in B minor, Magnificat, Cantatas
CD 22–36
Beethoven: Complete Symphonies, Piano Concertos, Fantasy op. 80, Violin Concerto, Missa solemnis, Concert Aria “Ah perfido”, Meeres Stille und Glückliche Fahrt, Mass in C major, Leonore oder Der Triumph der ehelichen Liebe
CD 37–38
Britten: War Requiem, Spring Symphony, Hymn to St. Cecilia, 5 Flower Songs
CD 39
Bruckner: Mass No. 1, 5 Motets
CD 40
Buxtehude: Membra Jesu Nostri Schütz O bone Jesu
CD 41
Chabrier: Orchestral works
CD 42
Dvořák: Symphonic Variations, Czech Suite Brahms Hungarian Dances
CD 43
Elgar: Enigma Variations, In the South, Introduction and Allegro, Sospiri
CD 44–47
Handel: Acis and Galatea, Hercules
CD 48–51
Haydn: The Creation, The Seasons
CD 52
Holst: The Planets
Grainger: The Warriors
CD 53
Lehár: The Merry Widow
CD 54
Mahler: Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen, Rückert Lieder
Zemlinsky: Maeterlinck Lieder
CD 55
Mendelssohn: Symphpnies Nos. 4 (original + revised version) & 5
CD 56–62
Monteverdi: Vespro della Beata Vergine, L’Orfeo, L’incoronazione di Poppea
CD 63–89
Mozart: Piano Concertos, Idomeneo, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, Così fan tutte, La clemenza di Tito, Die Zauberflöte
CD 90–91
Purcell: The Fairy Queen
CD 92
Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances
Janáček: Taras Bulba
CD 93
Schubert: Gesang der Geister über den Wassern, Symphony No. 9
CD 94
Schütz: Motets and Songs, Musikalische Exequien
CD 95–99
Schumann: Complete Symphonies, Requiem für Mignon, Nachtlied, Das Paradies und die Peri
CD 100–102
Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms, The Rake’s Progress
Boulanger: Pslams, Vieille Prière bouddhique
CD 103
Weill: Die sieben Todsünden, Songs
CD 104
Vienna Soirée - Works by Suppè, Ziehrer, Lehár, Lanner, Heuberger
ARTISTS
The Monteverdi Choir, The English Baroque Soloists, Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, Malcolm Bilson, Barbara Bonney, Michael Chance, Rodney Gilfry, Robert Levin, Sylvia McNair, Viktoria Mullova, Luba Orgonasova, Anne Sofie von Otter, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, Michael Schade, Boje Skovhus, Bryn Terfel, Mark Tucker, London Symphony Orchestra, NDR-Chor, NDR-Sinfonieorchester, Philharmonia Orchestra, Wiener Philharmoniker and many others