Concerts

Bach Ascension Cantatas (May 2012)

The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists perform Bach’s cantatas for Ascension Day for just one evening in London. The performances will be recorded by Soli Deo Gloria, which will complete their set of live recordings of Bach’s sacred cantatas. (These pieces, performed in Salisbury during the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, were not recorded due to technical reasons.)

“No one conducts Bach quite like John Eliot Gardiner” – The Times

Cantatas for Ascension Day:
Gott fähret auf mit Jauchzen BWV 43 (8:30pm concert only)
Auf Christi Himmelfahrt allein BWV 128
Wer da gläubet und getauft wird BWV 37 (6:30pm concert only)
Lobet Gott in seinen Reichen BWV 11

Monteverdi Choir - A Cappella (June & July 2012)

In the wake of their successful Pilgrimage to Santiago project, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir return to renaissance vocal music and explore English polyphony. The programme will include pieces by Taverner, Byrd, White and their contemporaries.

The concert in Spitalfields will be preceded by a talk by John Eliot Gardiner.

The performance in Salzburg is also part of the Salzburg Festival 2012.

Berlioz Requiem with Orchestre National de France and Chœur de Radio France (June 2012)

The Monteverdi Choir and Sir John Eliot Gardiner join forces with the Orchestre National de France and its choir Chœur de Radio France to perform Berlioz's monumental Requiem, with massive orchestral forces and four offstage bands, in the magnificent St. Denis cathedral, the burial place of the Kings of France.

This concert is part of the Saint-Denis Festival.

Debussy Pelléas et Mélisandes (July 2012)

Marking the 150th anniversary of Debussy's birth, Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts this masterpiece of atmospheric suggestion, insinuating eroticism and doomed love, having recently performed it at Paris's Opéra Comique, the theatre in which it was premiered, as part of his 5-year residency there.

This concert is part of the BBC Proms 2012.

Salzburg Festival (July 2012)

The English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir will open the prestigious Salzburg Festival with Haydn's great oratorio, The Creation.

The second night of the visit features an a cappella performance by the Monteverdi Choir, and is part of the
A Cappella project.

These concerts are parts of the Salzburg Festival.

Beethoven Missa Solemnis (September to November 2012)

Beethoven Missa Solemnis (September, October & November 2012)

“From the heart—may it in turn go to the heart!” wrote Beethoven on the score of his Missa Solemnis. Composed in order to inspire devotion in performers and audiences alike, it is one of his grandest, most challenging works. The wonderfully expressive music reflects the text of the Catholic mass, from the pleading Kyrie to the jubilant Gloria. Many contrasting styles, with influences from renaissance polyphony to baroque and classical masses, can be heard. The result is a monumental, moving piece.

The Monteverdi ensembles perform the Missa Solemnis together for the first time in 10 years.

The performance at Barbican, London is a gala concert in support of the Monteverdi Ensembles.
All proceeds of the night will go towards the ensembles’ future projects.