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The Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique - 3 world-renowned ensembles founded by Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

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MonteverdiChoir&Orch
1 year
Happy 80th birthday to our Founder and Artistic Director #JohnEliotGardiner ! 🍾🎂🎉 📷Chris Christodoulou
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1 year
We were honoured to perform at the #Coronation of King Charles III and Queen Camilla and delighted that the @Telegraph noted, "If the Monteverdi Choir isn't singing when I get to the gates of Heaven, I want my money back."
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This July, we are thrilled to spotlight soprano Ali Ponsford-Hill in our new "Meet the MCO Musicians" series, as she marks an extraordinary 20 years with the Monteverdi Choir. Read more:
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2 months
Gute Nacht Leipzig. What a pleasure to perform Bach in the Nikolaikirche tonight. Auf Wiedersehen!
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2 years
We thoroughly enjoyed performing Beethoven’s Missa solemnis at the @bbcproms this evening! Thank you to everyone for coming!
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2 years
We are looking forward to working with @AntoineTamestit and #IsabelleFaust . Listen to Isabelle Faust performing Mozart's Violin Concerto in B-flat Major with the English Baroque Soloists in 2022. Book tickets for our Haydn & Mozart concert @smitf_london 👉
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The Monteverdi Choir directed by Jonathan Sells, with the incredible Isabelle Faust (violin) in the Nikolaikirche at Bachfest Leipzig: Bach motets and solo violin music. This is going to be something special! #MonteverdiChoir #BachfestLeipzig #MCOonTour
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6 years
Wishing a happy 75th birthday to our Founder and Artistic Director, Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Here's to another year of incredible music making!
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1 year
Together with fellow representatives of the UK’s freelance professional choral ensembles, we’ve sent this letter to the BBC to express our dismay at the decision to disband the @BBCSingers #WeAreTheBBCSingers
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2 years
The English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner are rehearsing Mozart – Symphony No. 36 in C major “Linz” ahead of our tour next week to @koelnmusik @scharountheater @Musikverein @MupaBudapest @muenchenmusik . Book now for our concert @smitf_london 👉
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6 years
Rehearsals are underway at the @Musikverein for our #VerdiRequiem18 concert this evening. Have a listen to this powerful excerpt from the 'Tuba Mirum' (courtesy of our Deputy Stage Manager Matt Muller) #Musikverein #Vienna
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“The orchestral playing was buoyant as well as sensitive, the choral work dazzling.” ★★★★★ The Observer Join us in a week as the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and Peter Whelan bring this dazzling choral showpiece to life at the Salzburg Festival 2024.🎶
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1 year
#JohnEliotGardiner was named an Honorary Citizen of Cremona on 25 June. He said, "It is an honour for me to become a citizen of the city where Claudio #Monteverdi was born who, for me, is the greatest composer."
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🎵✨ Get ready to be blown away by the incredible talent of the MCO horn section! Today, they're bringing Beethoven's Symphony No. 7 to life during rehearsals, and we've got an exclusive sneak peek for you. 📹🎶 Join us tonight at St Martin-in-Fields at 7:30 PM 🌟🗣️
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MonteverdiChoir&Orch
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We are delighted to announce that @dinispsousa will conduct our autumn programme including our American tour @carnegiehall @HarrisTheater @mccarter and concert at @stmartins_music . Photo: Sim Canetty-Clark
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1 year
Here we are rehearsing the opening of Act 1 of Berlioz's Les Troyens. We're really looking forward to our European tour @FestivalBerlioz @SbgFestival @CVSpectacles @blnfestspiele and @bbcproms 👇
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We had a wonderful time performing at evocative venues associated with #Monteverdi 's life and career on our Italian tour. Here we are performing at the #MonteverdiFestival in #Cremona , the town where the composer was born.
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2 years
We have had a wonderful few days rehearsing Bach's Christmas Oratorio. Listen below to John Eliot Gardiner, the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists hard at work in rehearsals. @stagecasters @stageplusmusic @smitf_london @teatroallascala @CVSpectacles
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🎶✨ "The Lord is my strength and my song" ✨🎶 Julia Doyle and Amy Wood were our enchanting soprano soloists in March 🌟🎻 Just 2 weeks until we appear at the prestigious Salzburg Festival with this dazzling choral masterpiece 🎵🌍 Find out more:
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2 years
We are excited to be performing in the Chapelle Royale at the Château de Versailles today. Listen below to the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists rehearsing No. 17 from Part 2 @CVersailles @CVSpectacles
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: “The performance stood out not only for its technical excellence and the beauty of the solo voices but also for its deep spiritual impact.” Join us in just 3 weeks as the Monteverdi Choir bring Handel's Israel in Egypt to life at the Salzburg Festival🎶
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2 years
Today we are performing J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio in the stunning Chapelle Royale at Château de Versailles @CVersailles 📸 @stagecasters
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Here we are rehearsing Berlioz's Les Troyens. We're really looking forward to performing @FestivalBerlioz , @SbgFestival , @CVSpectacles @BerlinPhil and @bbcproms - book now!👇
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3 years
Fantastic weekend in Zürich performing alongside the @tonhalle Orchester! 🎶 Next stop on our tour of Berlioz’s ‘L'enfance du Christ’ is @Ely_Cathedral on Friday 10 December – book your tickets now:
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2 years
We had a fantastic time touring our Haydn & Mozart programme throughout Europe with @AntoineTamestit and #IsabelleFaust . Listen 👇 to the English Baroque Soloists rehearsing Mozart's Symphony No. 36 in C major “Linz” ahead of our final concert @muenchenmusik last night.
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3 months
🎂 Today is Monteverdi’s 457th birthday! What better way to celebrate than with the English Baroque Soloists performing the opening of l’Orfeo – conducted by John Eliot Gardiner, recorded at Teatro La Fenice, Venice in June 2017 as part of the Monteverdi 450 celebrations.
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2 years
The Monteverdi Choir and Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique are currently rehearsing Beethoven's epic Missa solemnis for our concert tonight at the BBC Proms! @bbcproms
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MonteverdiChoir&Orch
5 years
Happy Birthday Johann Sebastian Bach! We’re celebrating with a #ThrowbackThrusday to last year’s #BachFest when the audience of the Nikolaikirche joined us in singing the final chorus of BWV 140. #Bach334
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1 year
Here we are rehearsing #Bach 's Mass in B minor for our concert @smitf_london tonight which will be broadcast live on @BBCRadio3 to celebrate #JohnEliotGardiner 's 80th birthday.
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Here we are rehearsing #Berlioz 's #LesTroyens at the beautiful @OperaRoyal . We're really looking forward to performing here tonight! 🐴🎶
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MonteverdiChoir&Orch
2 years
Today we were joined by renowned soloists @AntoineTamestit and #IsabelleFaust rehearsing Mozart – Sinfonia Concertante in E-flat major ahead of our Haydn and Mozart tour next week. Join as @smitf_london on Friday 13 January. Book tickets 👉
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2 years
We have arrived in Amsterdam and are looking forward to the first of 3 concerts this evening @Concertgebouw in partnership with @ConcertgbOrkest , performing Brahms's Choral Works. Listen below to the Monteverdi Choir rehearsing Letzes Glück from Brahms's Fünf Gesänge.
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MonteverdiChoir&Orch
3 years
Very excited for our critically acclaimed performance of Bach's St John Passion to be released on CD and Blu-ray on Friday 4 March! 💿🎶
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Deutsche Grammophon (DG)
3 years
John Eliot Gardiner, together with the @mco_london and English Baroque Soloists, adds a new reading of J.S. Bach’s St. John Passion to his remarkable legacy of recordings for DG. Order now 👉
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6 years
Delighted to be heading back to @carnegiehall for our second #BerliozSeries18 concert. Tonight, we'll be joined by @SimonCallow @NYCOScotland @Spikelmyers and @ashleyriches for 'Lélio ou Le retour à la vie' along with 'Symphonie Fantastique'
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6 years
Here's an extract from the end of Berlioz's swashbuckling Corsaire Overture to give you that #FridayFeeling - performed at the @CVSpectacles last October as part of our #BerliozSeries2018
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“He spake the word, and there came all manner of flies and lice in all quarters.” Handel’s Israel in Egypt is the 18th-century equivalent of a technicolour Biblical epic. Join us in just one month as MCO bring this dazzling choral showpiece to life at the Salzburg Festival
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MonteverdiChoir&Orch
4 years
We are now streaming our Cantata of the Week for the first Sunday after Trinity, Bach’s BWV 20 ‘O Ewigkeit, du Donnerwort’. This is introduced by baritone Dietrich Henschel, who featured as a soloist in many concerts across our Bach Cantata Pilgrimage.
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1 year
We were delighted and extremely proud that eight members of our #choir sang throughout the #Coronation service with @WAbbeyChoir , the Chapel Royal, and choristers from @TruroCathChoir and @MethodyBelfast . 👑🎶
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2 years
Wishing all our followers a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 🎄 Listen below 👇 to the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner in rehearsal for J.S. Bach: Christmas Oratorio @smitf_london @stageplusmusic @stagecasters
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MonteverdiChoir&Orch
4 years
📽️ All nine films in our Beethoven Symphonies series are available now! 📺 Watch John Eliot Gardiner’s in-depth exploration of the composer’s symphonic works, with exclusive footage of the ORR rehearsing and performing our Beethoven Symphony Cycle 🎶
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8 years
Wishing a very Happy Birthday to our founder and Artistic Director, Sir John Eliot Gardiner.
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3 years
It’s been a very long time since the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique last performed together (541 days to be exact!) Today, we’re thrilled that they are finally reunited in rehearsals for our Mendelssohn and Berlioz programme! 🎻🎺
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Claudio #Monteverdi was baptized #OnThisDay in 1567. In June we will pay homage to the composer by filming a spectacular documentary, featuring performances at evocative venues associated with his career, in Italy. Portrait by Bernardo Strozzi.
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2 years
We are looking forward to performing Bach’s Christmas Oratorio at Teatro alla Scala this evening. Listen below to John Eliot Gardiner, Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in rehearsal this afternoon. @teatroallascala
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1 year
Rehearsing #Berlioz 's #LesTroyens with wonderful @AliceCoote who will be performing the role of Cassandre on our European tour @FestivalBerlioz @SbgFestival @CVSpectacles @blnfestspiele and @bbcproms .
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"A double concert of almost unbearable beauty and richness" Dazzling review in the Leipziger Volkszeitung of our concert of Bach motets and solo violin music #BachMotets #SoloViolin #MonteverdiChoir #IsabelleFaust #MCOonTour
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MonteverdiChoir&Orch
4 years
Today is the Monteverdi Choir’s 56th birthday! 🎉🎈🥂 📯 To celebrate, enjoy this clip of the Choir performing the joyful ‘Endless pleasure’ chorus from Handel’s Semele last Spring at London’s @Yourallypally Find out more about the Choir's history here:
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2 years
🎧Hear the English Baroque Soloists in rehearsal with @AntoineTamestit and #IsabelleFaust for tonight’s concert @smitf_london . Composed in 1779, Mozart’s Sinfonia Concertante can be considered his most successful realization in this cross-over genre between symphony and concerto.
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"A choral ensemble that is rightfully considered the best in Europe" – Bachtrack ★★★★★ It's hard to believe it's already been a month since we began our epic Beethoven journey at the Philharmonie de Paris with the breathtaking Mass in C major. 🎶✨ #MCOonTour #Beethoven
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🎶 We continue our epic journey through Beethoven's musical universe TONIGHT, as we immerse ourselves in the grandeur of the iconic Symphony No. 5 and the infectious energy of Symphony No. 4. 🚀✨ Join us at St Martin-in-Fields at 7.30
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5 years
Rehearsals currently underway in Barcelona’s stunning Palau de la Música @palaumusicacat ahead of our next Semele performance tonight… #Semele #Handel
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3 years
Today the choir are in action rehearsing our ‘Handel & Bach: Virtuosic Choral Works’ programme, ahead of our @bbcproms concert on Wednesday 1 September 🎶 📽️ Enjoy this clip from Bach’s ‘Christ lag in Todesbanden’, and book your tickets to our Prom here:
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2 years
We had a wonderful time in Budapest performing @MupaBudapest 🇭🇺. Last stop ➡️of our Haydn & Mozart tour @muenchenmusik 🇩🇪 We are also proud to share that John Eliot Gardiner was awarded an Honorary Doctorate at the Liszt Ferenc Academy of Music 👉📖
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8 years
Happy birthday Claudio Monteverdi! Born 449 years ago today - looking forward to #Monteverdi450 in 2017!
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📽️Watch the Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists and John Eliot Gardiner in rehearsal at the Chapelle Royale - Château de Versailles. @CVSpectacles With thanks to @stagecasters .
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5 years
Our reinforcements from the Monteverdi Choir & @Orfeo_Catala have arrived for tonight's concert, the last of the Barcelona leg of our #Beethoven250 Symphony Cycle tour. Looking forward to raising the @palaumusicacat roof tonight!
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6 years
Wishing all of our followers a very Merry Christmas from everyone at The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras!
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We are thrilled to present our Beethoven cycle at the magnificent Philharmonie de Paris over the next 5 days! Here’s a sneak peek from this afternoon's rehearsal of the sublime Mass in C major. Enjoy! 🎶✨ #BeethovenCycle #PhilharmoniedeParis #ClassicalMusic #MCOonTour
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We arrived at Beethoven's 9th Symphony on Sunday to round off a fantastic first week of rehearsals for our #Beethoven250 Symphony Cycle tour! Now counting down the days until we begin the tour on Sunday at the @palaumusicacat ...
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1 year
We've really been enjoying our rehearsals this week for Berlioz's Les Troyens and are looking forward to performing @FestivalBerlioz @SbgFestival @CVSpectacles @blnfestspiele and @bbcproms - book now! 👇
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It’s a pleasure to be back at the @Concertgebouw in Amsterdam 🇳🇱 We’re currently rehearsing our Brahms choral works programme with the magnificent @ConcertgbOrkest ahead of three concerts this week, the first of which is tonight! Find out more here 👉
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2 years
Today’s the day!! The Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists are rehearsing music by Carissimi, Scarlatti and Schütz in the beautiful Kollegienkirche ahead of tonight’s concert as part of the Salzburg Festival.🎶🇦🇹 @SbgFestival #salzburgerfestspiele #salzburgfestival
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5 years
To commemorate the great French Maestro Hector Berlioz on the 150th anniversary of his death, we’d like to share this extract from the final movement of the ever-exhilarating Symphonie fantastique, performed by the ORR and John Eliot Gardiner at the @OperaRoyal #Berlioz150
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Here we are rehearsing Handel’s l’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato for our concert at @stmartins_music tonight!
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WE'RE HERE! It's raining, it's pouring, but the RAH is soaring, as final prep is underway ahead of out our late-night @bbcproms concert!!
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📢 Today is the day! We are very excited about our live-streamed performance of Bach’s St John Passion from Oxford’s @SheldonianOxUni , which will be available from 2pm (UK time) 🎶 📺 In the meantime, here’s another short clip from rehearsals to show you what’s in store…
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Johann Sebastian Bach died 273 years ago today. In June we joined Bachfest in Leipzig in celebrating the lasting influence of Bach's music, with the Monteverdi Choir and Violin Soloists Kati Debretzeni and Isabelle Faust, conducted by Jonathan Sells.
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Happy Birthday @teatroallascala which opened 245 years ago on 3 August 1778! Here's a poster for our performance of #Handel 's Semele on our European tour in 2019 - listen to our live recording from London's Alexandra Palace here 👇
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Thrilled to finally be back on the @RoyalAlbertHall stage! 🎶🎻 We return to the @bbcproms tonight for an evening of Handel and Bach - limited tickets left, follow this link to book now:
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📽️ Short clip from the beautiful ‘Shepherds’ Farewell’ in rehearsal today at @battersea_arts 👇 Don't miss our performances of Berlioz’s festive oratorio ‘L’enfance du Christ’ at @Ely_Cathedral and @smitf_london this weekend – book tickets here:
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We are immensely proud to be named Best Choir at the @opermagazin Awards tonight!
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The Monteverdi Choir @mco_london ist Bester Chor. Warum? Weil das Kollektiv bei Festivals, auf Konzerttourneen und in seinen zahlreichen Aufnahmen immer wieder sprachlos macht ob seiner Qualität. Und die reicht längst über die Ära des Namensgebers hinaus bis weit ins 19.
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A week ago we were at the wonderful Bachfest Leipzig for “a double concert of almost unbearable beauty and richness” (Leipziger Volkzeitung): Bach family motets in dialogue with solo violin music. 📷 Photo credit: Leipzig Bachfest / Gert Mothes
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Tonight is the night! Our @bbcproms Berlioz concert with @JoyceDiDonato & @AntoineTamestit at @RoyalAlbertHall has finally come around. Rehearsals underway as we speak, with excited anticipation ramping up. Don’t forget to tune in @BBCRadio3 from 7.30pm or see you there
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We really enjoyed performing #Bach 's Mass in B minor at @smitf_london last night which was broadcast live @BBCRadio3 - listen here 👇 📷Paul Marc Mitchell
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BONJOUR! Sir John Eliot Gardiner leads the final rehearsal ahead of our @bbcproms w/ @NYCoScotland & @TrinityBoysChoi . Here's a taster:
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Incredible concert last night in the stunning @BasiliqueSDenis – here’s a video from rehearsals to give you a taste of our Verdi Requiem performance at the @FEST_ST_DENIS yesterday… #DiesIrae #Verdi #MonteverdiChoir #ORR
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Thank you for the wonderful reviews of our performance of #Berlioz 's #LesTroyens @bbcproms . 🐴🎶 ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ @thetimes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ @FT ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ @Telegraph ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ @EveningStandard ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ @bachtrack ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ @theartsdesk Photo: BBC/Andy Paradise
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Rehearsals in London for our Handel Semele tour are off to a flying start. Very excited for our first concert at the @philharmonie in Paris next week! #MCOsemele #Handel
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The Monteverdi Choir & Orchestras continue its exploration of Monteverdi’s Italy with a performance in the Galleria degli Specchi at the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua. Now available to stream on demand at
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Fantastic evening in Barcelona yesterday as we brought our tour of Handel’s Semele to the @palaumusicacat Next stop... London! @Yourallypally #Handel #Semele Images © Toni Bofill
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Want to learn more about the period instruments played by the ORR and how they contribute to the ensemble’s unique, historically-inspired identity? Principal Horn @AnnekeScott demonstrates some of the instruments that featured in our recent #BerliozSeries18 tour…
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MonteverdiChoir&Orch
2 months
🎶 TONIGHT! Join the Monteverdi Choir at St Martin-in-the-Fields for an evening exploring the motets of the Bach family and captivating solo violin pieces. Here's an exclusive rehearsal clip of "Singet dem Herrn" from yesterday. 🎟️ Find out more:
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
1 year
Johann Sebastian #Bach died #onthisday in 1750. To celebrate his legacy watch us performing Mass in B minor at the Chapelle Royale in Versailles in April and book now for our American tour @HarrisTheater @mccarter @carnegiehall @BachFestMtl in October.
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
9 months
Dinis Sousa will conduct the Monteverdi Choir and Concertgebouw Orchestra in performances of Brahms’s choral masterpiece ‘Ein deutsches Requiem’ at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, in February and March 2024. We are very excited to have Dinis onboard this project; 🎟️ In our bio
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
6 years
This week we've got some #WednesdayWisdom from ORR's Ophicleidist Marc Girardot, who explains and demonstrates his fascinating instrument - which featured in our recent #BerliozSeries2018 tour. #PeriodInstruments
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
21 days
More reaction from Salzburg: “The sonorous splendour, vocal agility, and internal emotion of the Monteverdi Choir, impeccably supported by the English Baroque Soloists under Peter Whelan.” – Die Presse Read more:
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
6 years
Tonight, we continue our #VerdiRequiem18 tour in the stunning Cattedrale di Pisa as part of the Anima Mundi sacred music festival
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
6 years
We've got that #FridayFeeIing so to celebrate here's a small but perfectly formed clip from today's rehearsal of Bach Cantata BWV 12 at the Dresden Frauenkirche ahead of tonight's #bachcantataring18 performance at @dresdenfestival
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
6 years
Today we were honoured to be a part of the #PeterHall memorial service at @wabbey Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducted members of the Monteverdi Choir in a performance of J.C. Bach’s ‘Es Ist Nun Aus Mit Meinem Leben’ (‘Now My Life Is Ended’)
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
6 years
Thrilled to announce that actor, author and director @SimonCallow will be joining us for two of our #BerliozSeries18 concerts in the U.S.! He will be taking on the role of narrator in our performances of Berlioz's 'Lélio ou Le retour à la vie' at #AnnArbor and @carnegiehall
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
7 years
3 operas, 7 months, 12 cities, 34 performances - 1 unforgettable Monteverdi Trilogy tour! Unforgettable memories of #Monteverdi450
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
1 year
Here we are rehearsing for our performance of #Berlioz 's #LesTroyens at @FestivalBerlioz in La Côte-Saint-André tonight. 🐴🎶
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
3 years
⏰ Just three days to go until our live-streamed performance of Bach’s St John Passion from Oxford's Sheldonian Theatre! If you haven’t already, head to @DGclassics ‘DG Stage’ to book your tickets now: 🎫
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
4 years
We’re sad not to be at the @BarbicanCentre this week performing our Beethoven Symphony Cycle, but we’re delighted to announce the launch of a 9-part film series in which Gardiner and the ORR explore these incredible works as we rehearsed for this project.
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@mco_london
MonteverdiChoir&Orch
7 years
Lovely moment during Berlioz The Damnation of Faust rehearsals with @NYCoScotland @TrinityBoysChoi & ORR #MondayMotivation #BBCProms
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