It is grounded in all the most recent Bach scholarship but moves far beyond it, and takes us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. The fruits of this lifetime's immersion are now distilled in this remarkable book, which explains in wonderful detail how Bach worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects-and what it can tell us about Bach the man. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer's greatest living interpreters. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who (when we can discern his personality at all) seems so ordinary, so opaque-and occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents' house, where it hung for safety during the Second World War. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famously unfathomable composers in the history of music. "An unprecedented book about one of the greatest of all composers, by his greatest modern interpreter. Xxxiv, 628 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), map, music 25 cm Bach : music in the castle of heaven / by John Eliot Gardiner Book Bib IDÄ«ook, Online - Google Books
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