Bach

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 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 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 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 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. Best Download Bach [ by ] John Eliot Gardiner [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr s slightly after the Christmas season some traditions excepted , but this is a fine sample of Gardiner s own conducting Shout for joy and exult Here is a stimulating new look at the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach Our author has the benefit of not just a musical education with Nadia Boulanger, but a lifetime of practical experience in conducting Bach, even the marathon feat of an international tour of all of Bach s sacred cantatas almost 200 s slightly after the Christmas season some traditions excepted , but this is a fine sample of Gardiner s own conducting Shout for joy and exult Here is a stimulating new look at the life and works of Johann Sebastian Bach Our author has the benefit of not just a musical education with Nadia Boulanger, but a lifetime of practical experience in conducting Bach, even the marathon feat of an international tour of all of Bach s sacred cantatas almost 200 distinct performances in a single year.Bach s early life and his surroundings are portrayed in a set of quick snappy early chapters we go from a look of Bach s contemporaries such as Handel, Rameau, Telemann, and Scarlatti here called the class of 85 to his own life Bach emerges not as a saintly writer of the fifth gospel, but a rebellious, temperamental, even irritable man, enraptured by music He has a rough childhood, poor marks and frequent absences in a violent school, his first wife and ten of his children died young, and he flaunts a ha...Still a book about Bach, the musician of the musicians, the boss Why one over and what news The author John Eliot Gardiner An institution The English chief was the student and also the heir of Nadia Boulanger He was one of the heroes of the baroque revolution.This movement began in Holland and Germany at the end of the Seventies The goal was to play again the Baroque music withclose to the authenticity instrument of time, diapason with 451 herz, cord in bowel..Gustav Leonhard Still a book about Bach, the musician of the musicians, the boss Why one over and what news The author John Eliot Gardiner An institution The English chief was the student and also the heir of Nadia Boulanger He was one of t...Yet another book on Bach, are you kidding Fino Well, yes and this one is really really good John Eliot Gardner is one of the world s greatest performers of baroque music and this book provides insight into what for me would be the otherwise completely inaccessible world of Bach s choral music all written in what is for me incomprehensible German He has a great, entertaining writing style and I learned so much and loved learning about how I could appreciate the music despite not understandin Yet another book on Bach, are you kidding Fino Well, yes and this one is really reall...stato davvero interessante leggere questo saggio, incentrato sulla produzione sacra di Bach, che d poco spazio alla stretta biografia e solo nella misura in cui inquadra l artista, uomo talvolta servile con i potenti la sua vita dipendeva dalle loro grazie e commissioni, come biasimarlo , irascibile, in disputa per i compensi, stakanovista per anni compose una Cantata a settimana lavorando senza sosta intimamente religioso La musica di Bach incentrata su vita morte Dio e il suo fine stato davvero interessante leggere questo saggio, incentrato sulla produzione sacra di Bach, che d poco spazio alla stretta biografia e solo nella misura in cui inquadra l artista, uomo talvolta servile con i potenti la sua vita dipendev...Four months to read this book Some brilliant things here, but also very frustrating Gardiner strongly believes that Bach s religious music, specifically the prodigious cantata cycles, the St John and St Matthew Passions, and the B minor Mass, are at the absolute center of Bach s accomplishment and identity Fine, but he neglects Bach s stupendous abstract music, and really fails to address how those not attached to Bach s Lutheran variant of Christianity how those who may not be religiou Four months to read this book Some brilliant things here, but also very frustrating Gardiner strongly believes that Bach s religious music, specifically the prodigious cantata cycles, the St John and St Matthew ...John Eliot Gardiner explores the man behind the music in this ambitious, definitive biography of Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 1750 the great arguably greatest ever composer Gardiner, a prot g of Nadia Boulanger and a seasoned conductor, grew up in a musical family that was entrusted with the Elias Gottlob Haussmann portrait of Bach during World War 2 At a critical moment in his career, he realized that, I would first need to study and to learn to perform the music of Bach Consequently, i John Eliot Gardiner explores the man behind the music in this ambitious, definitive biography of Johann Sebastian Bach 1685 1750 the great arguably greatest ever composer Gardiner, a prot g of Nadia Boulanger and a seasoned conductor, grew up in a musical family that was entrusted with the Elias Gottlob Haussmann portrait of Bach during World War 2 At a critical moment in his career, he realized that, I would first need to study and to learn to perform the music of Bach Consequently, in 2000 he organized the Bach Cantata Pilgrimage, 250 years after Bach s death This year long undertaking, which followed the release of new material from the former German Democratic Republic, provided new insights into Bach s prodigious output Born in 1685 in Thuringia to a famously musical clan, orphaned at age 9 and apprenticed to his eldest brother, Johann Sebastian began composing in his tween...Much to my surprise, given my interest in the subject and the widespread acclaim, large portions of this were a total slog Having gone in knowing Bach s instrumental works somewhat better than his choral pieces, I was intrigued by getting the perspective of a choral conductor Sadly, I found the author to be pretty grating in his discussion of music not just the random speculation about what Bach must have felt as he wrote pieces passages of music clearly show Bach wrestling with his doub Much to my surprise, given my interest in the subject and the widespread acclaim, large portions of this were a total slog Having gone in knowing Bach s instrumental works somewhat better than his choral pieces, I was intrigued by getting the perspective of a choral conductor Sadly, I found the author to be pretty grating in his discussion of music not just the random speculation about what Bach must have felt as he wrote pieces passages of music clearly show Bach wrestling with his doubt about Lutheran dogma, huh , but also the long descriptions of how the listener reacts even when I adore the musical passages being described, being told that the audience can t help but react in some, usually swoony, way, I recoil Some of the ways he organized the discussion of cantatas was also pretty unsatisfying, with a fair amount of jumping abruptly from one...The book offers musical insights into Bach s sacred music, and also into his time and place We are presented with the results of a lot of fascinating and on going research.I love the cantatas, passions, masses and have them all I took helpful notes on what to listen out for in those cantatas I m not familiar with The Passions and the B Minor Mass are treated towards the end and I gave up at the end of the Kyrie Reading about the B Minor Mass is a task for another time.I thought that Joh The book offers musical insights into Bach s sacred music, and also into his time and place We are presented with the results of a lot of fascinating and on going research.I love the cantatas, passions, masses and have them all I took helpful notes on what to listen out for in those cantatas I m not familiar with The Passions and the B Minor Mass are tr...here is what many of us consider the most beautiful and profound manifestation that man is capable of in complex harmonious sounds that capture in an inexplicable way the joys and suffering we experience in our earthly lives John Eliot Gardiner, a man who spent much of his life conducting and interpeting Bach s music wrote this to explain what he thought was the most representative part of Bach s body of work his Leipzig cantatas and why they are important He presents Bach s life and work here is what many of us consider the most beautiful and profound manifestation that man is capable of in complex harmonious sounds that capture in an inexplicable way the joys and suffering we experience in our earthly lives John Eliot Gardiner, a man who spent much of his life conducting and interpeting Bach s music wrote this to explain what he thought was the most representative part of Bach s body of work his Leipzig cantatas and why they are important He presents Bach s life and work from a number of points of view his family and the overwhelming presence of death in the 17th century his devout Lutheranism the state of his craft at the time the politics of his workplace what s known of his work methods as well as an analysis o...While Bach has been part of my life since childhood, I haven t thought forthan a moment about him as opposed to his music since hearing a tape called Mr Bach Comes to Call when I was eight or nine But I heard that tape a lot I could still recite bits of it, no question Gardiner s main interpretive scheme is that Bach, the man, is inferrable from Bach, the composer Even leaving aside the intentional fallacy, which is sort of inevitable in a book that s both biography and criticism, While Bach has been part of my life since childhood, I haven t thought forthan a moment about him as opposed to his music since hearing a tape called Mr Bach Comes to Call when I was eight or nine But I heard that tape a lot I could still recite bits of it, no question Gardiner s main interpretive scheme is that Bach, the man, is inferrable from Bach, the composer Even leaving aside the intentional fallacy, which is sort of inevitable in a book that s both biography and criticism, I was surprised to find that I m really not that interested in Bach s personal character Given that, this was largely a slog I also didn t quite have the theory background to follow many of the detailed arguments I could hear what Gardiner was talking about, usually, if I heard a recording, but I couldn t infer it from the page.So why keep reading, at such length Besides Lenten discipline , which, okay Mostly, Gardiner does what I want in a critic He gives me a compelling reason to check out something new, and fres...

• English
• 11 March 2018
John Eliot Gardiner
• Hardcover
• 672 pages
• 0375415297
• John Eliot Gardiner
• Bach