'The violent, thuggish world of young JS Bach'

**french frank** · 21-09-13, 19:34

His first book?

**Ruhevoll** · 21-09-13, 19:38

Originally posted by french frank View Post

His first book?

There is more information here: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bach-Castle-...stle+of+heaven

The blurb: Gardiner’s background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinizing the music, and watching for those instances when Bach’s personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. 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. 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. John Eliot Gardiner 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 all creative artists.

**Roehre** · 21-09-13, 20:31

Originally posted by Ruhevoll View Post

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It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner 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 all creative artists. [/I]

Ton Koopman (with Christoph Wolff) on the Bach cantatas, e.g. ?