John Eliot Gardiner – The Complete Recordings On Erato – Box Set 64CDs

CD 1
Purcell: Come ye sons of art (Ode for Queen Mary’s birthday, 1694), Z 323
Purcell: Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary, 1695

Charles Brett (counter-tenor), Dame Felicity Lott (soprano), John Williams (counter-tenor), Thomas Allen (bass)
Equale Brass Ensemble, Monteverdi Choir, Monteverdi Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 2
Handel: Dixit Dominus, HWV 232
Handel: Coronation Anthem No. 1, HWV258 ‘Zadok the Priest’

Felicity Palmer (soprano), Margaret Marshall (soprano), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Charles Brett (countertenor), John Angelo Messana (countertenor), Richard Morton (tenor), Alastair Thompson (tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor), David Wilson-Johnson (bass), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Nicholas Kraemer (harpsichord), Malcolm Hicks (organ) & Michael Lewin (theorbo)
Monteverdi Choir & Monteverdi Orchestra, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 3
Rameau: Les Fêtes d’Hébé (Excerpt)

Jean-Claude Orliac (tenor), Anne-Marie Rodde (soprano), Jill Gomez (soprano)
Monteverdi Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 4
Handel: The Ways of Zion do mourn, HWV 264

CD 5-6
Massenet: Scènes dramatiques
Massenet: Scènes de féerie
Massenet: Scènes alsaciennes
Massenet: Scènes pittoresques
Massenet: Don Quichotte: Interlude No. 1
Massenet: Don Quichotte: Interlude No. 2

L’Orchestre National de l’Opéra de Monte-Carlo, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 7-8
Handel: Israel in Egypt, HWV54

Paul Elliott (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), William Kendall (tenor), Daryl Greene (soprano), Julian Clarkson (counter-tenor), Ashley Stafford (counter-tenor), Brian Gordon (counter-tenor), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Christopher Royall (counter-tenor), Charles Stewart (bass)
Monteverdi Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 9
Purcell: Jehova, quam multi sunt hostes, Z. 135
John Tomlinson (bass), Maldwyn Davies (tenor)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Locke: How doth the city sit solitary
Ashley Stafford (counter-tenor), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Owen Grundy (bass)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: My beloved spake, Z28
Charles Brett (counter-tenor), Roderick Earle (bass), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Wynford Evans (tenor)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: O God, thou hast cast us out, Z36
Christopher Robson (counter-tenor), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Owen Grundy (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Blow: Salvator Mundi
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: Hear my prayer, O Lord, Z15
Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Humfrey: O Lord my God
Charles Brett (counter-tenor), David Thomas (bass), Martyn Hill (tenor)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 10
Purcell: The Tempest, Z631

David Thomas (bass), Carol Hall (mezzo-soprano), Jennifer Smith (soprano), John Elwes (tenor), Rosemary Hardy (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Roderick Earle (bass)
Monteverdi Orchestra, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 11
Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z630

Ashley Stafford (counter-tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Martyn Hill (tenor), Rosemary Hardy (soprano), John Elwes (tenor), David Thomas (bass)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 12
Campra: Messe de Requiem

Dinah Harris (soprano), Jean-Claude Orliac (tenor), Judith Nelson (soprano), Stephen Roberts (bass), Wynford Evans (tenor), Stephen Harris (bass)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 13-14
Handel: L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Marie McLaughlin (soprano), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Michael Ginn (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Michael Ginn (counter-tenor), Martyn Hill (tenor)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 15-16
Bach, J S: Motets, BWV225-230
Bach, J S: Motet BWV118 ‘O Jesu Christ, mein Lebens Licht’

Monteverdi Choir & English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 17
Handel: Concerti grossi Op. 3 Nos. 1-6, HWV312-317

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 18
Handel: Water Music Suite No. 1 in F major, HWV348
Handel: Water Music Suite No. 3 in G major, HWV350
Handel: Water Music Suite No. 2 in D major, HWV349

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 19
Bach, J S: Cantata BWV4 ‘Christ lag in Todesbanden’ (Easter Cantata)
Bach, J S: Cantata BWV131 ‘Aus der Tiefe rufe ich, Herr, zu dir’

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 20-21
Handel: Semele

Patrizia Kwella (soprano), Timothy Penrose (counter-tenor), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Maldwyn Davies (tenor), Robert Lloyd (bass), Norma Burrowes (soprano), Catherine Denley (contralto), Della Jones (mezzo-soprano), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), David Thomas (bass)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 22
Gluck: Don Juan

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 23
Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia (Ode for St Cecilia’s Day 1692), Z328

Ashley Stafford (contralto), Brian Gordon (contralto), David Thomas (bass), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Paul Elliott (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 24
Monteverdi: Tirsi e Clori, ballo concertato (Book 7)
Monteverdi: Lasciate i monti
Monteverdi: Vieni, Imeneo (from Orfeo)
Monteverdi: Ecco pur ch’a voi ritorno (from L’Orfeo)
Monteverdi: Moresca (from Orfeo)
Monteverdi: De Le Bellezza (from Scherzi Musicali)
Monteverdi: Il Ballo delle ingrate, SV 167
Monteverdi: Volgendo il ciel (Ballo ‘Movete’), SV 154

Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Lawrence Dale (tenor), Alan Woodrow (tenor), Patrizia Kwella (soprano)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 25
Rameau: Dardanus Suite

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 26-28
Rameau: Les Boréades

Anne-Marie Rodde (soprano), John Aler (tenor), Jennifer Smith (soprano), Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Philip Langridge (tenor), François Le Roux (baritone), Martine March (soprano), Elizabeth Priday (soprano)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 29-30
Bach, J S: Orchestral Suites Nos. 1-4, BWV1066-1069
Bach, J S: Dir, dir, Jehova, will ich singen, BWV299

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 31-32
Purcell: King Arthur, Z628

Ashley Stafford (counter-tenor), Gillian Fisher (soprano), Ashley Stafford (contralto), Gill Ross (soprano), Paul Elliott (tenor), Elisabeth Priday (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Jennifer Smith (soprano)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 33
Scarlatti, A: Stabat Mater
Cavalli: Salve Regina
Gesualdo: Ave, Dulcissima Maria
Clemens: O Maria vernans rosa

English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 34
Handel: Alcina: ballet music
Handel: Il pastor fido: ballet music
Handel: Terpsichore: ballet music

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 35-36
Chabrier: L’Étoile

François Le Roux (narrator), Antoine David (tenor), Antoine David (narrator), Colette Alliot-Lugaz (soprano), Colette Alliot-Lugaz (narrator), Georges Gautier (tenor), Alain Maratrat (narrator), Georges Gautier (narrator), François Le Roux (baritone), Ghyslaine Raphanel (narrator), Michel Fockenoy (tenor), Gabriel Bacquier (narrator), Ghyslaine Raphanel (soprano), Magali Damonte (narrator), Gabriel Bacquier (bass), René Schirrer (bass-baritone), Magali Damonte (mezzo-soprano)
Choeurs de l’Opéra National de Lyon, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, Opéra National de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 37-39
Handel: Tamerlano

Jane Findlay (soprano), Michael Chance (counter-tenor), Derek Lee Ragin (counter-tenor), Nigel Robson (tenor), Nancy Argenta (soprano), René Schirrer (baritone)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 40-42
Leclair, J-M: Scylla et Glaucus

Andrew Murgatroyd (tenor), Agnès Mellon (soprano), Françoise Golfier (soprano), René Schirrer (baritone), Nicolas Robertson (tenor), Donna Brown (soprano), Howard Crook (tenor), Élizabeth Vidal (soprano), Francis Dudziak (baritone), Philip Salmon (tenor), Richard Stuart (baritone), Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Rachel Yakar (soprano)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 43
Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor, D759 ‘Unfinished’
Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major, D944 ‘The Great’

Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 44
Bizet: Symphony in C
Bizet: L’Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2

Choeurs de l’Opéra de Lyon, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 45-46
Berlioz: L’Enfance du Christ, Op. 25

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Anthony Rolfe Johnson (tenor), Michel Fockenoy (tenor), José van Dam (baritone), Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), René Schirrer (baritone)
Monteverdi Choir, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 47-48
Messager: Fortunio

Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Colette Alliot-Lugaz (soprano), Michel Trempont (baritone), Francis Dudziak (tenor), Patrick Rocca (tenor), Nicolas Rivenq (baritone), Michel Fockenoy (tenor), Thierry Dran (tenor), Brigitte Desnoues (mezzo-soprano), Gilles Cachemaile (baritone), Sylvie Stewart (soprano), René Schirrer (bass)
Chœurs de l’Opéra de Lyon, Chœur de l’Opéra de Lyon, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 49-50
Gluck: Iphigénie en Aulide

John Aler (baritone), Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Guillemette Laurens (mezzo-soprano), José van Dam (baritone), Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Anne Sofie von Otter (soprano), Ann Monoyios (soprano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), John Aler (tenor), Bernard Delétré (bass), Isabelle Eschenbrenner (soprano), René Schirrer (baritone)
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 51-52
Purcell: Timon of Athens, Z632
Gillian Fisher (soprano), Michael George (bass), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Paul Elliott (tenor), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: Dioclesian Suite
Gillian Fisher (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (bass), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Paul Elliott (tenor), Michael George (bass), Rogers Covey-Crump (tenor)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 53-54
Offenbach: Les Brigands

Consuelo Caroli (mezzo-soprano), Elisabeth Vidal (soprano), Fabien Pothier (vocals), Brigitte Denoues (soprano), Ghyslaine Raphanel (vocals), Judith Becle (vocals), Gaële Le Roi (soprano), Christoph Eschenbach (piano), Philippe Dusigne (tenor), Pierre-Yves Le Maigat (baritone), Isabelle Eschenbrenner (soprano), Tibère Raffalli (tenor), Colette Alliot-Lugaz (soprano), Michel Pastor (tenor), Christian Jean (tenor), Michel Trempont (baritone), Francis Dudziak (baritone), Alain Maratrat (vocals), Ghislaine Raphanel (soprano), Alexandre Laiter (tenor), Jean-Marc Brun (vocals), Valérie Millot (soprano), François Le Roux (baritone), Thierry Dran (tenor), Jean-Luc Viala (tenor), Bernard Pisani (tenor), René Schirrer (baritone), Michel Demonfoux (bass), Jacques Loreau (tenor), Michel Fockenoy (tenor)
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, Opéra National de Lyon, Choeurs de l’Opéra de Lyon, Choeur De l’Opéra National De Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 55
Couperin, F: Apothéoses: Le Parnasse ou L’apothéose de Corelli, Grande Sonade, en Trio
Couperin, F: Concert dans le goût théâtral
Couperin, F: L’Apothéose de Lulli

English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 56
Ravel: Shéhérazade
Ravel: Deux mélodies hébraïques: Kaddisch
Ravel: Deux mélodies hébraïques: L’enigme éternelle
Ravel: Cinq mélodies populaires grecques
Ravel: Vocalise-étude en forme de habanera
Duparc: L’Invitation au voyage
Duparc: Au pays ou se fait la guerre
Duparc: La Vie antérieure
Duparc: Le Manoir de Rosemonde
Duparc: Phidylé
Duparc: Chanson triste

Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Opéra National de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 57
Carissimi: Judicium extremum (excerpt)
Donna Deam (soprano), Stephen Charlesworth (baritone), Stephen Varcoe (baritone), Paul Tindall (tenor), Philip Slane (tenor), Ruth Holton (soprano), Susan Hemington Jones (soprano), Suzane Flowers (soprano)
English Baroque Soloists, His Majestys Sagbutts & Cornetts, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Carissimi: Jonas
Lucinda Houghton (soprano), Gillian Ross (soprano), Mark Tucker (tenor), Jonathan Peter Kenny (tenor), Philip Newton (tenor), Ruth Holton (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Carissimi: Jephte (excerpt)
Ashley Stafford (contralto), Lawrence Wallington (bass), Gillian Ross (soprano), Donna Deam (soprano), Ruth Holton (soprano), Susan Hemington Jones (soprano), Nigel Robson (tenor), Richard Savage (bass), Suzanne Flowers (soprano)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 58-59
Gluck: Orphée et Eurydice

Anne Sofie von Otter (mezzo-soprano), Brigitte Fournier (soprano), Barbara Hendricks (soprano)
Monteverdi Choir, Opéra National de Lyon, Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 60
Berlioz: Le Jeune Pâtre Breton, Op. 13 No. 4
Howard Crook (tenor)
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

Berlioz: La captive, Op. 12
Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

Berlioz: Le chasseur danois Op.19 No.6
Gilles Cachemaille (baritone)
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

Berlioz: Zaïde Op. 19 No. 1
Brigitte Fournier (soprano)
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

Berlioz: 9 Mélodies Op.2 : IV La belle voyageuse
Diana Montague (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

Berlioz: Les Nuits d’été, Op. 7
Howard Crook (tenor), Catherine Robbin (mezzo-soprano), Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Diane Montague (mezzo-soprano)
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 61
Tchaikovsky: Variations on a Rococo Theme, Op. 33
Glazunov: Two Pieces, Op. 20
Tchaikovsky: Nocturne, Op. 19 No. 4
Rimsky Korsakov: Serenade, Op. 37
Tchaikovsky: Andante Cantabile (from String Quartet No. 1 in D Op. 11)
Cui: Pieces (2) for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 36
Tchaikovsky: Pezzo capriccioso, Op. 62
Glazunov: Chant du Ménestrel, Op. 71

Steven Isserlis (cello)
Chamber Orchestra of Europe, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 62-63
Gluck: La rencontre imprévue ou les pèlerins de la mecque

Sophie Marin-Degor (soprano), Lynne Dawson (soprano), Jean-Luc Viala (tenor), Jean-Philippe Lafont (baritone), Catherine Dubosc (soprano), Francis Dudziak (tenor), Gilles Cachemaille (baritone), Guy de Mey (tenor), Claudine Le Coz (soprano), Guy Flechter (tenor)
Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, John Eliot Gardiner

CD 64
Purcell: Sonata for Trumpet and Strings in D major, Z850
David Blackadder (trumpet)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: The Married Beau, Z. 603: Overture
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: Come Ye Sons of Art, Z. 323 “Ode for Queen Mary’s Birthday”
James Bowman (counter-tenor), Michael Chance (counter-tenor)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: Saul and the Witch of Endor, Z. 134: Trio. “In Guilty Night”
Jennifer Smith (soprano), Paul Agnew (tenor), David Thomas (bass)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: The Indian Queen, Z. 630, Act III: Minuet
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: King Arthur, Z. 628, Act V: Song. “Fairest Isle”
Lynne Dawson (soprano)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: Upon a Quiet Conscience, Z. 184: “Close Thine Eyes and Sleep Secure”
Lynne Dawson (soprano), Peter Harvey (baritone)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Recitative. “Thy Hand, Belinda” – Song. “When I Am Laid in Earth” (Dido)
Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano)
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: March and Canzona for Queen Mary’s Funeral, Z. 860: March
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: Funeral Sentences: Man That Is Born of a Woman, Z. 27
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: March and Canzona for Queen Mary’s Funeral, Z. 860: Canzona
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: Funeral Sentances
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: Abdelazer, Z. 570: II. Rondeau
Purcell: King Arthur, Z. 628, Act III: Prelude
English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: King Arthur, Z. 628, Act I: Song and Chorus. “Come If You Dare” – First Act Tune
Paul Agnew (tenor)
English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, John Eliot Gardiner

Purcell: King Arthur, Z. 628, Act III
Nancy Argenta (soprano), Stephen Varcoe (baritone)
Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner