CAMA Presents English Baroque Soloists ⫽ John Eliot Gardiner, conductor ⫽ Tuesday, April 12, 2022 ⫽ The Granada Theatre, Santa Barbara, California ⫽ 7:30PM
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2022, 7:30PM ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS JOHN ELIOT GARDINER, conductor Kati Debretzeni, violin Fanny Paccoud, viola Almost inexcusably absent from the pantheon of great conductors appearing in Santa Barbara during CAMA’s long history, John Eliot Gardiner will at last grace the Granada stage directing the English Baroque Soloists, the preeminent period-instrument chamber ensemble founded by the maestro himself in 1978. Arguably the foremost living interpreter of 17th‑ and 18th‑century choral and orchestral repertoire, John Eliot Gardiner is also the Founder and Director of the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. With these and other ensembles, he has recorded more than 250 albums; among them are benchmark recordings of the Monteverdi Vespers and Bach B‑minor Mass, the complete Beethoven symphony cycle on period instruments, and each and every Bach sacred cantata. In his spare time, the prodigious maestro runs an organic farm at Springhead near Fontmell Magna in North Dorset. PROGRAM: HAYDN: Symphony No.103 in E‑flat Major, “The Drumroll,” H.1/103 MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E‑flat Major, K.364 (320d) MOZART: Symphony No.39 in E‑flat Major, K.543
TUESDAY, APRIL 12, 2022, 7:30PM
ENGLISH BAROQUE SOLOISTS
JOHN ELIOT GARDINER, conductor
Kati Debretzeni, violin
Fanny Paccoud, viola
Almost inexcusably absent from the pantheon of great conductors appearing in Santa Barbara during CAMA’s long history, John Eliot Gardiner will at last grace the Granada stage directing the English Baroque Soloists, the preeminent period-instrument chamber ensemble founded by the maestro himself in 1978. Arguably the foremost living interpreter of 17th‑ and 18th‑century choral and orchestral repertoire, John Eliot Gardiner is also the Founder and Director of the Monteverdi Choir and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. With these and other ensembles, he has recorded more than 250 albums; among them are benchmark recordings of the Monteverdi Vespers and Bach B‑minor Mass, the complete Beethoven symphony cycle on period instruments, and each and every Bach sacred cantata. In his spare time, the prodigious maestro runs an organic farm at Springhead near Fontmell Magna in North Dorset.
PROGRAM:
HAYDN: Symphony No.103 in E‑flat Major, “The Drumroll,” H.1/103
MOZART: Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E‑flat Major, K.364 (320d)
MOZART: Symphony No.39 in E‑flat Major, K.543
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performance of Bach’s St John Passion<br />
from Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre, and performed<br />
at several of Europe’s most prestigious<br />
music festivals, including his 60th appearance<br />
at the BBC Proms. He ended the<br />
year conducting the Monteverdi Choir and<br />
ORR in performances of Berlioz’s sacred<br />
oratorio L’enfance du Christ, which included<br />
a critically acclaimed performance at the<br />
Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras new London<br />
home, St Martin-in-the-Fields.<br />
The beginning of 2020 saw Gardiner<br />
conduct the ORR in three Beethoven symphony<br />
cycles as part of the Beethoven 250<br />
anniversary celebrations, with concerts at<br />
Barcelona’s Palau de la Música, New York’s<br />
Carnegie Hall, and the Harris Theatre in<br />
Chicago. Other recent achievements with<br />
the Monteverdi ensembles include the RPS<br />
award winning Monteverdi 450 project in<br />
2017, a reprise of the 2000’s famous Bach<br />
Cantata Pilgrimage, which toured to some<br />
of Europe’s most famous concert halls and<br />
churches in 2018, a five-year exploration<br />
of Berlioz’s major works to mark the 150th<br />
anniversary of the composer’s death, and a<br />
landmark performance of Verdi’s Requiem<br />
at London’s Westminster Cathedral in aid of<br />
Cancer Research UK. In 2019 Gardiner conducted<br />
new productions of Handel’s Semele<br />
and Berlioz’s Benvenuto Cellini, and gave his<br />
debut performances in Colombia, Russia,<br />
Brazil, Uruguay, Argentina and Chile.<br />
An authority on the music of Johann<br />
Sebastian Bach, Gardiner’s book, Music in<br />
the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann<br />
Sebastian Bach, was published in October<br />
2013 by Allen Lane, leading to the Prix des<br />
Muses award (Singer-Polignac). Among numerous<br />
awards in recognition of his work,<br />
Gardiner holds several honorary doctorates.<br />
He was awarded a knighthood for his services<br />
to music in the 1998 Queen’s Birthday<br />
Honours List.<br />
Photo by Sim Canetty-Clarke
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