It never happens often enough, but now and then, a subject gets the book it deserves. So it is with John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, a biography so thoughtful, ...

Master conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner on the earthly and heavenly Johann Sebastian Bach. Conductor, scholar, and famed interpreter of Baroque music Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Matthias Baus). The ...

Musicians in Scotland with long enough memories and a love of Bach will remember the name of Peter Williams. From 1962-85 he was a internationally acclaimed senior member of staff within the Edinburgh ...

Gardiner suggests local knowledge of the landscape through song bears some comparison with the idea of Aboriginal songlines, such as Gardiner read in Bruce Chatwin’s book The Songlines. “In the ...

It was the biologist and popular author Lewis Thomas, writing in Lives of a Cell, who proposed that mankind use Bach’s music to say hello to any sentient life in the universe. Thomas recommended ...

Here's a book that seems to go beyond the usual Bach biography. Amadeus Press has just published "The Worlds of Johann Sebastian Bach" in which 10 experts "examine the composer1s social, political, ...

IT IS the defining signature of Western music. In German notation, B-A-C-H spells out B? A C B natural. It turns up in the very last pages of The Art of Fugue, that extraordinary musical logarithm ...