Gardner's B-minor mass

[sawyl]

Before I leave JS Bach's Mass in B-minor, here's the first recording I bought: John Eliot Gardner's first version from the mid-80s. As Kenyon says, it's a bit frantic in places, but there's no doubting the commitment of the English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir:

I used to listen to this every Sunday morning when I was a student as I waited for my laundry...