[ Deutsche Grammophon / 30 CD Box Set ]
Release Date: Monday 18 March 2013
The truly great DG / Archiv & Philips recordings from across John Eliot Gardiner's career, ranging from Monteverdi to Stravinsky via Handel, Bach, Mozart and Verdi.
The 108-page booklet includes an extended interview-article (2,500 words) with Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music in London, recording producer and trumpet-player.
One of the great advocates of period-instrument performance he has received more Gramophone awards than any other living artist … and now Sir John Eliot Gardiner has reached the ripe old age of 70 without any signs of letting up on his almost frenetic life in music.
It's an overwhelmingly vocal collection, a sequence of highly dramatic musical works that faithfully reflects Gardiner's musical ideals and predilections.
Bach, J S:
St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Beethoven:
Leonore
Missa Solemnis in D major, Op. 123
Berlioz:
Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Boulanger:
Psalms 24, 129, 130
Vieille Prière bouddhique
Elgar:
Enigma Variations, Op. 36
In the South (Alassio), Op. 50
Introduction & Allegro for strings, Op. 47
Sospiri, Op. 70
Gluck:
Iphigénie en Tauride
Grainger:
Irish Tune from County Derry 'Danny Boy'
Handel:
Jephta
Haydn
The Seasons
Lehár:
Die Lustige Witwe [The Merry Widow]
Monteverdi:
Vespro della beata Vergine (1610)
Mozart:
Idomeneo
Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K466
Piano Concerto No. 21 in C major, K467 'Elvira Madigan'
Purcell:
The Fairy Queen, Z629
Schumann:
Requiem für Mignon, Op. 98b
Symphony No. 4 in D minor, Op. 120
Stravinsky:
Symphony of Psalms
Verdi:
Requiem
Weill, K:
The Seven Deadly Sins