"It's clear that Gardiner has discarded accepted performance traditions." (Gramophone, 1989)
This week Piers Burton-Page presents different contemporary attitudes towards "authentic performance". Today, he talks to John Eliot Gardiner, who conducts soloists, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists in Cantata No 61: Nun komm der Heiden Heiland; Komm, Jesu, Komm (BWV229); O Jesu Christ, meins Lebens Licht; The Betrayal and Arrest (St John Passion).

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