My love for baroque music has never been exclusive. Of course I am attracted by period instruments, but that has never been an end in itself. For me, it is simply a matter of always moving further towards the truth, towards a fresh interpretation." As idiomatic and revelatory in Bach, Handel, Purcell, Rameau and Campra as in Gluck, Berlioz, Offenbach, Chabrier and Massenet, Sir John Eliot Gardiner is a conductor whose passion and curiosity for music seem as inexhaustible as his enterprising spirit. This 64CD set unites his entire discography for Erato, EMI and Virgin, produced over a period of nearly 20 years. Many of the recordings cast new light on the repertoire, expanding Gardiner's influence and enhancing his reputation as the guiding force of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, English Baroque Soloists, and Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon. As the Financial Times has written :.What Gardiner demonstrated... is that stylistic fidelity is a movable feast, and he has not lost his hunger for it."
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The Complete Erato Recordings - John Elliot Gardner
39 Bach, J S: Dir, Dir, Jehova, Will Ich Singen, BWV299
40 Purcell: King Arthur, Z628
41 Scarlatti, a: Stabat Mater
42 Cavalli: Salve Regina
43 Gesualdo: Ave, Dulcissima Maria
44 Clemens: O Maria Vernans Rosa
45 Handel: Alcina: Ballet Music
46 Handel: Il Pastor Fido: Ballet Music
47 Handel: Terpsichore: Ballet Music
48 Chabrier: L'étoile
49 Handel: Tamerlano
50 Leclair, J-M: Scylla Et Glaucus
51 Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 'Unfinished'
52 Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C Major, D944 'The Great'
53 Bizet: Symphony in C
54 Bizet: L'arlesienne Suites 1 & 2
55 Berlioz: L'enfance Du Christ, Op. 25
56 Messager: Fortunio
57 Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide
58 Purcell: Timon of Athens, Z632
59 Purcell: Dioclesian Suite
60 Offenbach: Les Brigands
61 Couperin, F: Apothéoses: Le Parnasse Ou L'apothéose de Corelli, Grande Sonade, en Trio
62 Couperin, F: Concert Dans Le Goût Théâtral
63 Couperin, F: L'apothéose de Lulli
My love for baroque music has never been exclusive. Of course I am attracted by period instruments, but that has never been an end in itself. For me, it is simply a matter of always moving further towards the truth, towards a fresh interpretation." As idiomatic and revelatory in Bach, Handel, Purcell, Rameau and Campra as in Gluck, Berlioz, Offenbach, Chabrier and Massenet, Sir John Eliot Gardiner is a conductor whose passion and curiosity for music seem as inexhaustible as his enterprising spirit. This 64CD set unites his entire discography for Erato, EMI and Virgin, produced over a period of nearly 20 years. Many of the recordings cast new light on the repertoire, expanding Gardiner's influence and enhancing his reputation as the guiding force of the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, English Baroque Soloists, and Orchestre de l'Opéra de Lyon. As the Financial Times has written :.What Gardiner demonstrated... is that stylistic fidelity is a movable feast, and he has not lost his hunger for it."