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The Monteverdi Choir

The Monteverdi Choir was recently nominated as the world's finest choral ensemble. Aled Jones is joined by the Monteverdi's founder, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and three members, Gareth Keene, Julia Doyle and Lawrence Wallington to talk about the choir past and present.

1 hour, 30 minutes

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Sun 16 Jan 2011 18:30
大象传媒 Radio 3

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Music Played

  • Johannes Brahms

    Liebeslieder - [18] waltzes for pf duet & 4 vv ad lib. (Op.52) - no.8; Wenn so lind dein A

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

    • PHILIPS 432152 2.

  • Heinrich Sch眉tz

    Musikalische Exequien (SWV.279-81) - Part 3; Herr nun lassest/Selig sind (SWV.281)[2 ch. &

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts, Frieder Lang (tenor) conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 423 405 2.

  • Claudio Monteverdi

    Vespro della Beata Vergine [1610] - Lauda, Jerusalem [7 voices & bc]

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, and His Majestys Sagbutts and Cornetts conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 428565 2.

  • Thomas Morley

    O griefe, even on the bud for 5 voices [1597a]

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

    • ABBEY 60 8 2/4.

  • George Frideric Handel

    Jephtha - Act 2 [no.50]; How dark, O Lord, are thy decrees [chorus]

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

    • PHILIPS 422351 2.

  • Jean Mouton

    Nesciens mater virgo virum for 8 voices

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

    • SOLI DEO GLORIA 70 1.

  • Johann Sebastian Bach

    Cantata no. 20 (BWV.20) "O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort"

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

    • SOLI DEO GLORIA 10 1.

  • Benjamin Britten

    Hymn to St Cecilia for chorus (Op.27) 9:40

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir, Emma Preston-Dunlop (soprano), Gill Ross (soprano), Penny Vickers (contralto), Philharmonia Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner (conductor)

    • DEUTSCHE GRAMMOPHON 453433 2.

  • Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

    Le Nozze di Figaro - opera in 4 acts (K.492) End of Act 3: andante amici

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

    • ARCHIV 439871 2.

  • Johannes Brahms

    Ein Deutsches requiem (Op.45) - Wie lieblich sind deine Wohnungen

    Performer: Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre Revolutionnaire Et Romantique conducted by John Eliot Gardiner

    • PHILIPS 432140 2.

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  • Sun 16 Jan 2011 18:30
    大象传媒 Radio 3

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