English Baroque Soloists, John Eliot Gardiner

“Bachmaniacs” : John Eliot Gardiner and his travelling companions, the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists launched themselves into immense – from every point of view – “Bach Cantata Pilgrimage” and “Bach Marathons”, musical feasts where they reaffirmed their fascination for a composer that few can claim to know as well as they do. Both events culminated with the Mass in c minor , considered by Carl Friedrich Zelter to be “the most grandiose musical work the world has ever seen”.

The performance at the Grand Théâtre de Provence of this peak of baroque choral art, composed at the end of the 1740s in Leipzig, promises to be a highlight of the Festival.