Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Bach, back to old (bad) habits

This recording is certainly a big disappointment for every Gardiner-and Bach-Fan, as I am. For those who know Gardiner at its best, as for example in Bachs "Christmas-Oratorio" or in Monteverdis "Orfeo", this must seem a big step back to a boaring style of interpretation, characterised by staccato-like choirs and inappropriate soloists. The Monteverdi-Choir sounds very aggressive, I would say brutal, with little organic sensitivity. The Soloists (Lunn, Mingardo, and Podger) apparently have no experience with Bach, at least they sound lost in Bach's baroque world. Also Varcoe has seen better days. Comparing with recently recordings of Herreweghe (Wir danken Dir, Gott) this is very weak, also in terms of technical qualitaty of the recording.