Sir John Eliot Gardiner has revolutionized historical performance practice and, with his concertante pilgrimage through Bach's places of activity, has internalized his work like no other. With the Monteverdi Choir, which he founded, the English Baroque Soloists and vocal greats such as Anne Sofie von Otter, Michael Chance, Emma Kirkby, Magdalena Kozena, Andreas Schmid, Olaf Bär and Barbara Bonney, Gardiner has recorded numerous works by Bach. The most important ones - including his expressive Christmas Oratorio, the impressively sonorous St. Matthew Passion, the St. John Passion, the Mass in B minor and a large selection of cantatas and motets - have now been brought together for the first time in a limited edition of 22 CDs. The edition appears in a modern cap box with a 32-page booklet and at an unbeatable price-performance ratio.