Organization

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Singer

Soprano

Hilary Cronin

Sopran

Alison Ponsford Hill

Countertenor

Hugh Cutting

contre-ténor

Tenor

Jonathan Hanley

Bass

Frederick Long

Christopher Webb

Dingle Yandell

Nick Pritchard

Evangelist

Orchestra

English Baroque Soloists

Others

Monteverdi Choir

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras

Weihnachts-Oratorium, BWV 248 -  (Christmas Oratorio)

London

United Kingdom

St Martin-in-the-Fields

John Eliot Gardiner once said of Johann Sebastian Bach that "The range of his art, his imagination, and his creative response to different stimuli, is apparently endless." The works of this seminal figure of the Baroque are at the heart of the conductor's stylistically extremely diverse repertoire and in these live performances – filmed at two concerts in December 2022 – Gardiner performs the Christmas Oratorio with the ensembles he founded and spearheaded the modern revolution in Bach performance: the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists. Although nearly 300 years have now passed since it was first heard, Bach's work remains irresistible in its energy and inspiration.

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