Sir John Eliot Gardiner was named the winner of the Baroque Vocal category at this year's Gramophone Classical Music Awards for his recording of Bach Motets with the Monteverdi Choir on SDG. 

We caught up with him at the Awards ceremony, held at London's LSO St Luke's on September 17 in association with Steinway & Sons and EFG International.

You can watch him talk about the place of the Motets in Bach's oeuvre, their incredible demands on the singers and about conducting such a complicated 'aeronautical display' via Gramophone's YouTube channel below: