John Eliot Gardiner - The Complete Erato Recordings - John Elliot Gardner (CD)

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."

Track List:

Disc: 1

1. ? Purcell: Come ye sons of art (Ode for Queen Mary's birthday, 1694), Z 323
2. Purcell: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, 1695
3. Handel: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
4. Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV258 'Zadok the Priest'
5. Excerpt, Rameau: Les Fêtes d'Hébé
6. Handel: The Ways of Zion do mourn, HWV 264
7. Massenet: Scènes dramatiques
8. Massenet: Scènes de féerie
9. Massenet: Scènes alsaciennes
10. Massenet: Scènes pittoresques
11. Massenet: Don Quichotte: Interlude No. 1
12. Massenet: Don Quichotte: Interlude No. 2
13. Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV54
14. Purcell: The Tempest, Z631
15. Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z630
16. Campra: Messe de Requiem
17. Handel: L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato
18. Bach, J S: Motets, BWV225-230
19. Bach, J S: Motet BWV118 'O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht'
20. Bach, J S: Motet BWV118 'O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht'
21. Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 3 Nos. 1-6, HWV312-317
22. Handel: Water Music
23. Bach, J S: Cantata BWV4 'Christ lag in Todesbanden' (Easter Cantata)
24. Bach, J S: Cantata BWV131 'Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir'
25. Handel: Semele
26. Gluck: Don Juan
27. Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia (Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1692), Z328
28. Monteverdi: Tirsi e Clori, ballo concertato (Book 7)
29. Monteverdi: Lasciate i monti
30. Monteverdi: Vieni, Imeneo (from Orfeo)
31. Monteverdi: Ecco pur ch'a voi ritorno (from L'Orfeo)
32. Monteverdi: Moresca (from Orfeo)
33. Monteverdi: De Le Bellezza (from Scherzi Musicali)
34. Monteverdi: Il Ballo delle ingrate, SV 167
35. Monteverdi: Volgendo il ciel (Ballo ‘Movete'), SV 154
36. Rameau: Dardanus Suite
37. Rameau: Les Boréades
38. Bach, J S: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4, BWV1066-1069
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 thétral
63. Couperin, F: L'Apothéose de Lulli