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John Eliot Gardiner
Personb. 1943 · Dorset, United Kingdom, United Kingdom
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Bio
Sir John Eliot Gardiner is an English conductor and musicologist born in 1943. He founded the Monteverdi Choir in 1964 and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in 1989, specializing in historically informed performances of Baroque and Classical repertoire. Gardiner has recorded extensively for Deutsche Grammophon and Philips, including complete cycles of Bach cantatas and Beethoven symphonies. He served as principal conductor of the Orchestre de Paris and the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra. His work emphasizes period instruments and authentic performance practice across Renaissance, Baroque, and Romantic eras.
Popular tracks
- 12:19
Gloria: Gloria in excelsis Deo
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- 24:21
Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 3 in G Major, HWV 350: III. Minuets I & II
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- 34:48
Gloria, R. 589: Et in terra pax hominibus
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- 47:23
Mass in C Minor, K. 427 "Grosse Messe" (Rev. and Reconstr. A. Schmitt & E. Gardiner): 1. Kyrie
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- 52:02
Gloria: Domine Fili unigenite
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- 62:18
Handel: Water Music, Suite No. 1 in F Major, HWV 348: III. (b) Andante
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- 74:06
Gloria: Domine Deus, Rex coelestis
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- 82:47
Gloria: Cum Sancto Spiritu
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- 94:36
Gloria: Domine Deus, Agnus Dei
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- 102:09
Gloria: Laudamus te
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- 111:16
Gloria: Gratias agimus tibi
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- 122:17
Purcell: March and Canzona for Queen Mary's Funeral, Z. 860: March
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Albums
Vivaldi: Gloria / Handel: Dixit Dominus
Album · 2001
Handel : Water Music, Concerti grossi, Israel in Egypt, The Ways of Zion Do Mourn & Semele
Album · 1990
Mozart: Great Mass in C minor
Album · 1987
Purcell: Music for Queen Mary, Come ye Sons of Art
Album · 1990
Chabrier: España; Suite pastorale
Album · 1996
Elgar: In the South; Enigma Variations
Album · 2001
Bach, J.S.: Cantatas & Sacred Masterpieces
Album · 2010
Beethoven: Missa Solemnis
Album · 1990
England, My England. The Story of Henry Purcell (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Album · 1995
Leclair: Scylla et Glaucus, Op. 11
Album · 2023
Concerto grosso
Album · 2025
Handel: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232 & Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV 258 "Zadok the Priest"
Album · 1978