John Eliot Gardiner's landmark Millennium pilgrimage, in which he and his choir and orchestra performed all Bach's surviving church cantatas, continues to bear the delicious fruit of its live recordings. This latest harvest pairs the cantatas for Whit Tuesday and Trinity Sunday and features fine performances from sopranos Lisa Larsson and Ruth Holton, altos Nathalie Stutzman and Daniel Taylor, tenors Christoph Genz and Paul Agnew and basses Stephen Loges and Peter Harvey. Gardiner's definitive interpretations are essential listening.

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