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Come away fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing! All board the Cutty Sark for a semi-staging of Purcell's Dido and Aeneas with the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists.

The Monteverdi Choir and Dinis Sousa bring a fresh perspective to a performance of Brahms' German Requiem with the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in Amsterdam.

Dinis Sousa conducts the combined forces of the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir in L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.

Dinis Sousa doesn't put a foot wrong as the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and Monteverdi Choir give a performance of startling virtuosity at the end of a European tour. 

Under the direction of Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Zurich’s fine Tonhalle Orchestra, The Monteverdi Choir and soloists launch a sonorous holiday season with Hector Berlioz’s sacred oratorio L’Enfance du Christ.

To mark the 150th anniversary of the composer's death, Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the opera charting the escapades of the Italian goldsmith and sculptor. 

Rising like a phoenix, the Alexandra Palace Theatre stages its first opera since its reopening after eighty years of slumber. 

This concert was inevitably the sum of far more than its parts, and not for nothing are the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantiquem, regarded as among the best in the world

A taste of the opening weekend in Leipzig’s marathon Bach Festival. 

Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Baroque specialists continue their crusade to bring Bach's church cantatas to the modern world.

An unapologetic treat at the Proms and a composition of immediate appeal.

The final opera in Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi 450 trilogy features an excellent cast and inspires deep emotion.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner's Monteverdi 450 trilogy began its Salzburg run with a tear-jerking concert performance of L'Orfeo.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts an evening where much pomp and circumstance does little justice to the multifarious aesthetics of a great composer.

Prom 20 proved an exhilarating journey, featuring Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette as one of the key works of this year’s BBC Proms' Shakespeare 400 celebrations.

John Eliot Gardiner assembled the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists for a moving performance of JS Bach's great oratorio.

The superb Monteverdi Chorus and the English Baroque Soloists recently brought a kind a seraphic force to Bach's St Matthew Passion.

Shakespeare's Nick Bottom, who claimed “a reasonable good ear in music” would surely have approved of these performances at the Barbican Hall. 

Initially, it felt a little strange to be celebrating Mozart’s 260th Birthday with a performance of his sombre Requiem, but this turned out to be no ordinary performance of the popular work. 

Juan Diego Flórez turns in a tour de force in the title role of a consistently attractive and inventive performance of Gluck's ballet-laden Orphée et Eurydice.

Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir in a late night performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis at the BBC Proms.

Friday’s two Proms had a theme running through them: Resurrection, Easter and Ascension. I wasn’t quite sure how I would feel about listening to Bach’s small-scale oratorios after Mahler’s mighty “Resurrection” Symphony, but I needn’t have worried. Compared to Mahler’s angst and doubt in the symphony, Bach’s unwavering Christian faith was reassuring.

Writing a positive review is not an easy task. When confronted with something lacking error, a review can go one of two ways: a brief and simple praise of all involved and a summary of the evening, or an over-the-top full-blown confession of awe and admiration. Spoiler alert: this review is the latter.

Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis is an odd piece. Despite having a rich recorded legacy, it is not a piece that one encounters often in the concert hall. The technical challenges of this music are up there with virtually any other piece of combined music for choir and orchestra.

As I walked to this concert by the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir, I wondered what might have changed in Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s Beethoven in the two decades since he first recorded these symphonies.

Opera at the 2012 Proms began with a performance of Debussy’s only completed opera, Pelléas et Mélisande. Conducted by Sir John Eliot Gardiner, the production celebrated the 150th anniversary of the composer’s birth, and marked the 24 years since Gardiner first brought the work to the Royal Albert Hall with the Opéra de Lyon.

Bach, Biber, St. John's Smith Square. Clever juxtapositions, and they worked. The programmer of this concert - by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Solists under Sir John Eliot Gardiner - had a neat thought, to place Bach's six Motets (BWV 225-230) into the former church in SW1. The building and the motets date from the same decade, the 1720's.

The overture to Der Freischütz is a familiar concert warm-up, but the opera itself is a rarer find these days. It wasn't always so. With over fifty performances in the eighteen months following its 1821 Berlin debut, Weber's spooky tale of souls traded for magic bullets was an instant hit.

Monteverdi’s Vespro della Beata Vergine, Durham Cathedral and Sir John Eliot Gardiner – a glorious combination of music and architecture, in the hands of a man who made his name bringing the Vespers out of obscurity and into their well-deserved place in the concert repertoire.

Pari réussi partiellement pour la cheffe : malgré le haut niveau des protagonistes, cette Messe en si a commencé sur la retenue et n’a pas tenu toutes ses promesses, malgré une conclusion de toute beauté.

Eine Deutung, die am Karfreitag den emotionalen Höhepunkt des Todes höchst ergreifend einfängt. Und sich an den zentralen Partien ausrichtet, die mit optimalen Kieran Carrel und Konstantin Krimmel im Gedächtnis bleibt.

Pas impressionné par le challenge, le jeune chef portugais a dirigé une Neuvième Symphonie impressionnante, où le Monteverdi Choir a brillé de mille feux.

En commençant son cycle Beethoven par la Sixième Symphonie, le jeune chef portugais à la tête de l'Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique n'a pas choisi la facilité. Et pourtant...

Dieser Chor versteht Effekt und Können wie kein anderer. Er schlägt ein wie ein Blitz, mit ihm die EBS und Peter Whelan. Überwältigend.

Im Interview versprach Gardiner Emotionalität und Überraschung. In der Auffühung kam sie mit Assistent Sousa daher, der letztlich den bombastisch grandiosen Berlioz-Höhepunkt von ORR und Monteverdi Choir anerkennend rettete.

Nicht bloß ein unvergessliches Eigenpräsent für Jubilar, Monteverdi Choir und English Baroque Soloists, sondern kategoriesprengend eindeutig für mich das beste Konzert meines Lebens.

Mit hochkarätigen Solist*innen bringt Sir John Eliot Gardiner Beethovens Missa solemnis in Berlin zu Gehör.

Unmittelbare Geschichtserzählung und -schreibung machten auch dieses Konzert bei Klangvokal Dortmund zu einem Erlebnis für die Ewigkeit.

Ein prachtvolles Konzert mit selten gehörten Werken von Brahms und Mendelssohn Bartholdy.

Après le cycle de mélodies berlioziennes, Gardiner et son Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique ont proposé un Songe d’une nuit d’été particulièrement incarné, sous la brise fraîche de La Côte-Saint-André.

Menschlichkeit und Drama der Passion in der Lesart des Dirigenten sowie die Ausdrucksfülle von Chor und Solisten sind unschlagbar.

Con las Sinfonías núm. 8 y 9, John Eliot Gardiner concluye la encomiable gesta de dirigir la integral de sinfonías de Beethoven en el Palau de la Música Catalana.

Ein historischer Berlioz-Triumph für das ORR, den Monteverdi Choir und die Solisten, nur ein Hammerschlag vor beziehungsweise zu viel der Absolutheit. Berlioz kurios!

Au Festival Berlioz, Sir John Eliot Gardiner dirige une éclatante production de Benvenuto Cellini, avec un grand Michael Spyres et une intelligente mise en espace de Noa Naamat.

Himmlische Stimmen zu einem berührend-durchdachten Programm, das minimalst vor der pfingstgrüßlichen Vollendung in den Bann zieht.

Mit dem Verdi-Requiem gelingt Gardiner mit dem ORR und dem Monteverdi Choir ein überwältigendes Totendrama.

Die vier Bachkantaten verbreiteten in der Dresdner Frauenkirche in den Händen Gardiners und seiner Ensembles befreiende Freude.

Clôturant cette triologie Monteverdi, Le Couronnement de Poppée nous démontre une nouvelle fois l'alchimie palpable entre les solistes, l'orchestre des English Baroque Soloists et Sir John Eliot Gardiner, qui composent ensemble une fresque des passions humaines aussi réjouissante que complexe.