First in a regular series featuring oratorios and other large choral works. Tonight, presenter George Guest talks with conductor
John Eliot Gardiner about the Monteverdi Choir and his approach to a baroque masterpiece.
Bach Mass in B minor
Nancy Argenta , Lynne Dawson , Jane Fairfield,
Jean Knibbs and Patricia
Kwella (sopranos)
Carol Hall and Mary Nichols (mezzos)
Michael Chance , Patrick Collin and Ashley Stafford (countertenors)
Wynford Evans , Howard Milner and Andrew
Murgatroyd (tenors)
Richard Lloyd Morgan and Stephen Varcoe (basses) Monteverdi Choir
English Baroque Soloists, conductor John Eliot
Gardiner. Discs