Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven
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| Rating | : | 4.29 (772 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0375415297 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 672 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-08-17 |
| Language | : | English |
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Gardiner’s aim is “to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and mind as perhaps words can. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music.” It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. Gardiner’s background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. 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 World War II. The fruits of this lifetime’s immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship bu
He founded the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. He has conducted most of the world’s great orchestras and in many of the leading opera houses. He lives and farms in Dorset, England.. John Eliot Gardiner is one of the world&rsq
It should find its way onto any serious music-lover’s shelves. 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 “John Eliot Gardiner’s book is, apart from anything else, a tremendous feat of narrative: he has the rare gift of always putting the camera in the right place. Gardiner’s depth of knowledge permeates his writing.” –The New York Times B
A Report from the Field 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 . D Glover said A master Conductor's ear-view of the glories of Bach. 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. Gardi. "John Eliot in the Castle of Heaven" according to Johannes Climacus. 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