The English Baroque Soloists and the Monteverdi Choir were each founded by conductor John Eliot Gardiner in 1978 and 1964, respectively.
TheEnglish Baroque Soloists superseded the Monteverdi Orchestra, also founded by Gardiner. Since the early-1980s, the two groups have
frequentlycollaborated, specialising in Baroque and Classical period with particular regard for composers Bach, Mozart, Monteverdi and Haydn.
