English Baroque Soloists

The English Baroque Soloists developed from the Monteverdi Orchestra, which was formed by John Eliot Gardiner in 1968.

In the late 1970s the orchestra transitioned to period instruments and became the English Baroque Soloists.

[3][4] The orchestra played at the coronation of Charles III and Camilla in Westminster Abbey in 2023.

In 1990 Gardiner formed the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique, another period instrument ensemble.

The Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique specialises in a later repertoire than that of the English Baroque Soloists, but shares some players.