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Gardiner steps into his Ring of Cantatas in Leipzig

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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
****1
Gardiner and the English Baroque Soloists roll back the centuries
****1
Semele crashes and burns, but Louise Alder soars up at Ally Pally
****1
A religious experience at Prague Spring
****1
Evil triumphs beautifully in Monteverdi 450 Poppea
****1
An emotional L'Orfeo for Monteverdi 450
*****
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