Bach: Motets

Thirty years on from their acclaimed recording for Erato, Sir John Eliot Gardiner and the Monteverdi Choir return to the Bach Motets—some of Bach's most perfect and hypnotic compositions—in a new SDG recording, made at the culmination of an extensive European tour.

SDG716 72 minutes 26 seconds

'Common to the Monteverdi Choir’s performances over the years are their inimitable textual projection, clarity of line, rhythmic rigour and an overriding sense of expectancy and flair … Gardiner ...
'Performances of surpassing beauty and irresistible dancing energy' (The Sunday Times)
'The singers give a real questing quality to all the counterpoint, as if they are exploring these intricate textures for the first time. Their approach to the homophonic textures is just as sophistica ...