John Eliot Gardiner

John Eliot Gardiner is an English conductor who founded the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists. He is known for historically informed performances of early music.

Monteverdi Choir: A British choir founded by John Eliot Gardiner in 1964, known for performances of Renaissance, Baroque, and later repertory. Gardiner founded the choir as a central ensemble for his choral and operatic projects.
Bach Cantata Pilgrimage: A 2000 project in which Gardiner and his ensembles performed Bach’s church cantatas across Europe. The year-long undertaking brought Gardiner’s Bach interpretation to churches connected with the cantatas’ liturgical settings.
Historically informed performance: An approach to performance that uses historical evidence to guide choices about instruments, technique, notation, and style. This movement provides the interpretive framework associated with Gardiner’s early-music work.
Modern instrument: An instrument built according to contemporary designs and conventions rather than historical models. Modern instruments offer a contrasting sound and technique to those used by Gardiner’s period ensembles.
English Baroque Soloists: A period-instrument orchestra founded by John Eliot Gardiner in 1978. Gardiner created this orchestra to perform Baroque music with historically informed instruments and practices.
Monteverdi 1610 Vespers: A collection of sacred vocal music published by Claudio Monteverdi in 1610. Gardiner’s performances of the Vespers helped establish his Monteverdi expertise and the choir’s early identity.
Period instrument: An instrument built or reconstructed to resemble one used during the period of the music being performed. Gardiner’s ensembles use period instruments to approximate the sound and possibilities of earlier performance settings.
Roger Norrington: An English conductor associated with historically informed performances of Classical and Romantic music. Norrington pursued related historical-performance aims through a distinct conducting career and repertory.
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique: A period-instrument orchestra founded by John Eliot Gardiner in 1989 to perform music of the Classical and Romantic eras. Gardiner extended his historical-performance approach beyond Baroque repertory through this ensemble.
Bach's St Matthew Passion: A large-scale setting of the Passion story for singers, choir, and orchestra by Johann Sebastian Bach. Gardiner has recorded and performed this work as part of his extensive Bach repertory.

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