John Eliot Gardiner takes advantage of a short break between concerts in Eisenach to do a little on the spot investigation. It was here in the year 1685 that Johann Sebastian Bach was born. The british conductor got it into his head to perform the entire corpus of Johann Sebastian Bach's known cantatas during the jubilae year 2000. That is over 80 concerts, featuring 200 cantatas in only 12 months. All the cantatas have to be performed on the Sundays and religious festivals for which Bach originally wrote them. John Elliot Gardiner calls it "The Bach Cantata Pilgrimage". Many concerts will be performed in places in Saxony and Thuringia where Bach used to live. For Gardiner a very personal quest on the trail of Bach himself.

Watch also John Eliot Gardiner conducting Bach's Christmas Oratorio, BWV 248:    • Bach: Christmas Oratorio BWV 248, par...  

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