Conductor John Eliot Gardiner is the host of a Bach marathon at London’s Royal Albert Hall today. BBC Radio 3 is broadcasting the event live starting at 1 p.m. GMT — 8 a.m. Eastern.
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
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There are choral pieces, solo cello suites and keyboard pieces (including pipe organ) on the programme.
Highlights include Joanna MacGregor playing the Goldberg Variations at 11:30 a.m. Eastern, an organ recital by John Butt at 1:15 p.m. Eastern and a performance of the B minor Mass by the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists, led by Gardiner, at 3 p.m. Eastern.
The music is interspersed with interviews and commentary all day long.
You’ll find all the details — and music — here.
John Terauds, Editor-Emeritus of Ludwig van Toronto, is currently a Divinity student at the University of Toronto and a church music director. He joined the Toronto Star in 1988, was the classical music critic from 2005 to 2012, and continues as a freelance critic for the paper. He is the co-author of Roy Thomson Hall: A Portrait, a book written with Toronto Star Colleague, William Littler.
Latest posts by John Terauds (see all)
- Classical Music 101: What Does A Conductor Do? - June 17, 2019
- Classical Music 101 | What Does Period Instrument Mean? - May 6, 2019
- CLASSICAL MUSIC 101 | What Does It Mean To Be In Tune? - April 23, 2019
