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Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
John Eliot Gardiner
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Description for Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
paperback. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? This book distills the fruits of a lifetime's immersion as one of Bach's greatest living interpreters. Num Pages: 672 pages, 24pp colour. BIC Classification: AVGC3; AVGD; AVH; BGF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 130 x 33. Weight in Grams: 496.
Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate?
In this remarkable book, John Eliot Gardiner distils the fruits of a lifetime's immersion as one of Bach's greatest living interpreters. Explaining in wonderful detail how Bach worked and how his music achieves its effects, he also takes us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Penguin
Condition
New
Number of Pages
672
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141977591
SKU
9780141977591
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About John Eliot Gardiner
Sir 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 Revolutionnaire et Romantique. He conducts most of the world's great orchestras and in many of the leading opera houses. ... Read more
Reviews for Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach
Gardiner has joined the select ranks of luminary musicians articulating their experience, with this long, sumptuously illustrated survey of Bach's life and times. The result is dazzling
Iain Burnside
Observer
There could be no better-qualified guide to the mysteries behind Bach's music than the conductor who has breathed new life into its performance . . . As ... Read more
Iain Burnside
Observer
There could be no better-qualified guide to the mysteries behind Bach's music than the conductor who has breathed new life into its performance . . . As ... Read more