Gardiner steps into his Ring of Cantatas in Leipzig

By Stephen Pritchard, 13 June 2018

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“Outside the Nikolaikirche, lightning flashed, thunder rumbled and the sky darkened”

Reviewed at Nikolaikirche, Leipzig on 8 June 2018

Bach, Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland - Cantata, BWV61

Gallus, Jerusalem, gaude gaudio magno

Bach, Schwingt freudig euch empor - Cantata, BWV36

Bach, Wachet! betet! betet! wachet! - Cantata, BWV70a

Schütz, Ach Herr, du Schöpfer aller Ding, SWV 450

Bach, Unser Mund sei voll Lachens - Cantata, BWV110

Monteverdi Choir

English Baroque Soloists

Sir John Eliot Gardiner, Conductor

Hana Blažíková, Soprano

Julia Doyle, Soprano

Reginald Mobley, Countertenor

Ruairi Bowen, Tenor

Peter Harvey, Baritone

A rare Handel pastoral ode at Carnegie Hall

Edward Sava-Segal, 26th October

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

****1

Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists roll back the centuries

Roy Westbrook, 13th January

Refined if sometimes raucous pleasures from Haydn and Mozart as the EBS continues its European tour.

****1

Semele crashes and burns, but Louise Alder soars up at Ally Pally

Mark Pullinger, 2nd May

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

****1

A religious experience at Prague Spring

Frank Kuznik, 17th May

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

****1

Evil triumphs beautifully in Monteverdi 450 Poppea

Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 29th July

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

****1

An emotional L'Orfeo for Monteverdi 450

Ilana Walder-Biesanz, 26th July

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

*****

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Stephen Pritchard

Stephen Pritchard began singing as a treble at the age of eight and progressed to become a tenor in Portsmouth Cathedral Choir, the Gibbons Consort and now the English Chamber Choir. Writing about music has been at the core of his 40-year career in journalism, chiefly at the Observer. He has been known to play a pretty mean jazz double bass.