Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven download epub
by John Eliot Gardiner
Bach might be John Eliot Gardiner's godfather, a few centuries removed.
Bach might be John Eliot Gardiner's godfather, a few centuries removed. Gardiner actually grew up under the eye of the bewigged Lutheran cantor: a portrait of him had been entrusted to Gardiner's parents – who raised their brood with sung graces at mealtimes and traditional country dances afterwards – for safekeeping during the war. On his way upstairs to bed, the young Gardiner always flinched from the zealot's "forbidding stare"
Originally published in Great Britain as Music in the Castle of Heaven by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, London.
Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random. Originally published in Great Britain as Music in the Castle of Heaven by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, London. Gardiner, John Eliot. Bach : music in the castle of heaven, by John Eliot Gardiner. pages ; cm. ISBN 978-0-375-41529-6 (hardback).
John Eliot Gardiner’s book is not intended as a straight biography so much as a thematic examination of Bach . Mr. Gardiner is best known as a busy conductor of his own ensembles and others, specializing in period practice and, in particular, the performance of Bach
John Eliot Gardiner’s book is not intended as a straight biography so much as a thematic examination of Bach the composer as man and musician. Gardiner is best known as a busy conductor of his own ensembles and others, specializing in period practice and, in particular, the performance of Bach. The founder of the Monteverdi Choir and the English Baroque Soloists (among other groups), he led them on an international Bach Cantata Pilgrimage through 50 cities (including New York) in 13 countries in 2000, the 250th anniversary of Bach’s death, performing each of the 198 surviving sacred cantatas at the appropriate time of year and recording most of them.
John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most .
John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music.
John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and mind as perhaps words ca.
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. David Jones wrote (December 25, 2013): I think Gardiner is in the doghouse with a lot of Bach scholars, chiefly because of his stubborn insistence on more than one voice per a part and the lack of "earlier than thou" sound in his orchestral conducting; his sound is colorful and vibrant.
In this remarkable book, John Eliot Gardiner distils the fruits of a lifetime's immersion as one of Bach's greatest living .
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.
Johann Sebastian Bach mastered a stunning variety of musical forms: works for solo instruments, chamber pieces, vocal music, concerti and . Yet his overlooked choral music may be his best and is certainly his most abundant.
Johann Sebastian Bach mastered a stunning variety of musical forms: works for solo instruments, chamber pieces, vocal music, concerti and music for the orchestra. It includes works of great joy, like the Gloria from the Mass in B minor; moments of tenderness and mercy, like the chorales from the St. Matthew Passion; and music of unutterable beauty, like the cantata "Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben" (BWV 147), which contains the famous movement "Jesu, Joy of Man's Desiring.
John Eliot Gardiner uses his extraordinary immersion in Bach's music to illuminate Bach the man more brilliantly . I have two concerns about Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven.
John Eliot Gardiner uses his extraordinary immersion in Bach's music to illuminate Bach the man more brilliantly than in any previous work, and has created his own deeply moving work of ar. - -Amanda Foreman, author of A World on Fire. It is quite challenging to read, assuming (as it does) that readers have more than a passing knowledge of European history and of music (both of which I have). Gardiner also tends to interject anecdotes about himself and his own experiences on occasion, a habit that I find detracted slightly from my overall enjoyment of the book.
Bach was born in Thuringia just decades after the region suffered unspeakable devastation in the Thirty Years’ War.
In his new biography of the composer, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, John Eliot Gardiner seeks to penetrate the conventional Bach myth and reveal a more complete, more human vision of the most admired musician of the Baroque era. Bach’s life, Gardiner argues, was not the straightforward life of the archetypical diligent German protestant, a hard-working, pious family man whose art exists on a plane separate from and above its creator. Bach was born in Thuringia just decades after the region suffered unspeakable devastation in the Thirty Years’ War.
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. 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 safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer’s greatest living interpreters. 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.

ISBN: 1400031435
Category: Arts & Photography
Subcategory: Music
Language: English
Publisher: Vintage; Reprint edition (March 3, 2015)
Pages: 672 pages
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