Organization

Athens-Epidaurus Festival

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Εnglish Baroque Soloists – Monteverdi Choir – John Eliot Gardiner

Athens

Greece

Odeon of Herodes Atticus

Public

Concert

Approved

Renowned conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner, founder and artistic director of the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists, is a pioneer in early music revival and historically informed performances. His recent work with the Monteverdi Choir includes award-winning interpretations of Bach, Berlioz, and Verdi, among others, in concerts around the world. In the Odeon, he will direct the choir and the orchestra in these monumental works by Bach and his predecessors, Schütz and Schein, which draw inspiration from their composers’ experiences of grief and its cathartic power. The choir will be accompanied by the rich sound of early brass instruments in the works of Schütz and Schein.

 

PROGRAMME

Heinrich Schütz (1585-1672)

Freue dich des Weibes deiner Jugend, SWV 453

Ist nicht Ephraim mein teurer Sohn, SWV 40Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehöret, SWV 396

Musikalische Exequien, SWV 279-281

 

Johann Hermann Schein (1586 – 1630)

Da Jakob vollendet hatte

 

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)

Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit (Actus Tragicus), BWV 106

O Jesu Christ meins Lebens Licht, BWV 118

English

Εnglish Baroque Soloists – Monteverdi Choir – John Eliot Gardiner by Various, From (2022/2022), Conductor John Eliot Gardiner, Odeon of Herodes Atticus, Athens, Greece

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