Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
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| Rating | : | 4.11 (743 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1400031435 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer’s greatest living interpreters. One of the Best Books of the Year* The Economist * The Christian Science Monitor * Financial Times *Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. The fruits of this lifetime’s immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects—and what it can tell us about Bach the man.. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who 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 day on the stairs of his parents’ house, where it hung for sa
Like all great biographies of creative artists it builds a bridge from the past to the present and brings the work to new life.”—Ian Bostridge“A tremendous feat of narrative. In performance and now in print, Mr. Gardiner is Bach's most eloquent champion.”—The Wall Street Journal “Fresh, persuasive. Gardiner discovers a wealth of hitherto unseen invention and ingenuity.”—The Economist“An inspiring book. He has done a masterly, monumental job of taking the measure of Bach the man and the musician.”—The New York Times“It is Gardiner’s experience as a conductor that informs so much of this book. I learned an enormous amount, and I know I'll return to it again and again.”—Philip Pullman . This book is not a biography in the conventional sense but an attempt to uncover the
"A Report from the Field" according to Bach Lover. This is, and I am sure it will continue to be, one of the most interesting, well researched and valuable of books written on J.S. Bach and his times to date. I began it the day it arrived and have barely put it down. That is saying a lot as I have been buying and listening to and reading about Bach for the past 50+ years.Just a quarter of the way into its more than 600 pages, I can report that this book should prove to be invaluable to. "A master Conductor's ear-view of the glories of Bach" according to D Glover. Well, its taken me a very long time to read this book and its not a fault of the book. This is part biography of Bach (though not as much as many may like), part biography of various pieces of his church music and the imagination that birthed it, and in large part evocative description of Bach's sacred music itself. There is much to commend here. Gardiner is one of the foremost experts on Bach today, and not because he has read nearly . Johannes Climacus said John Eliot in the Castle of Heaven. I do not mean to derogate from Sir John Eliot Gardiner's status as one of the great luminaries of the podium in our age--to say nothing of his status as a pioneer and perfecter of period performance practice--but in the end the capstone of his career might well turn out to have been in the medium of prose rather than musical performance! This is, quite simply, the most fascinating, engrossing, erudite and stunningly written work on the
He lives and farms in Dorset, England. . John Eliot Gardiner is one of the world’s leading conductors, not only of Baroque music but across the whole repertoire. He founded the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestre Révolutionna