Sir John Eliot Gardiner and his Constellation Choir & Orchestra
will be taking us on a magnificent liturgical and musical journey towards Christmas. Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s Midnight Mass and Johannes Sebastian Bach’s «Unser Mund sei voll Lachens», both composed for the feast of feasts, are paired with another cantata by the Leipzig cantor, intended for the first Sunday of Advent, whose injunction to «rise up with joy» perfectly sums up the philosophy of this concert.
Ahead of his performance with the Orchestre Philharmonique du Luxembourg together with the Monteverdi Choir at the Philharmonie, we sat down with Sir John Eliot Gardiner for a new episode of our video series "The Art of Conducting" He talked to us about how the repertoire affects the gestures of conducting and music making, the sound of «period instruments» in today's orchestras, about the similarities between managing a bio-farm & leading an orchestra and much more!
