Interview
Sir John Eliot Gardiner in conversation with Jonathan Kelly
John Eliot Gardiner conducts Brahms and Mendelssohn
John Eliot Gardiner and his Monteverdi Choir present two key choral works from the Romantic period. During this era, spiritual music was intended to edify. Johannes Brahms does that in his dramatic Schicksalslied by reinterpreting Hölderlin’s resigned text with an optimistic epilogue. Mendelssohn’s Second Symphony, on the other hand, shows the way from darkness into the radiant vision of a better world with melodious choruses, duets and arias.
Berliner Philharmoniker
Sir John Eliot Gardiner
Monteverdi Choir
Lucy Crowe
Ann Hallenberg
Werner Güra
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