Monteverdi Choir

The mandolin virtuoso talks with host Brian McCreath about the rich musical environment of his childhood, what led him to the mandolin, and the role Bach's music plays in his artistic life.

On The Bach Hour, John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in the Cantata 190, "Sing to the Lord a New Song," written for New Year's Day.

On The Bach Hour, Canadian Brass applies their burnished brilliance to the composer's "Goldberg Variations," and John Eliot Gardiner leads the Monteverdi Choir in "Jesu, Meine Freude."

On The Bach Hour, the composer's Cantata No. 19, for St. Michael and All Angels, expresses a terrifying, visceral quality of battle, and a hope for protection and safety.

On The Bach Hour, the Welsh soprano is the soloist in the first recording of a cantata that had been lost for almost three centuries, a discovery described by Harvard University's Christoph Wolff.

On The Bach Hour, the Hilliard Ensemble and soloist Christoph Poppen bring the composer's Violin Partita No. 2 together with his settings of Lutheran chorales to render a sonic picture of anguish, grief, and transcendence.

On The Bach Hour, the Artistic Director of the Handel and Haydn Society offers his own insights and interpretations of one of the composer's most powerful masterpieces.