What Gardiner offers is an intimate knowledge of the choral music. he also comments on these scores from practical experience, having spent countless hours working out instrumental balances and sonorities, textures and dynamics, in concert halls and churches alike.” Not only does he explain the harmonic, contrapuntal and polyphonic underpinnings of Bach’s music. “It is Gardiner’s experience as a conductor that informs so much of this book. has done a masterly, monumental job of taking the measure of Bach the man and the musician.” might do to surpass Bach in its commitment, scope and comprehensiveness. “It is hard to imagine what the English maestro John Eliot Gardiner. writes with the care of a scholar, the knowledge of an expert musician, and the passion of a believer.” So it is with John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach.” It never happens often enough, but now and then, a subject gets the book it deserves. “So thoughtful, well-researched, and beautifully written that it should satisfy both the well-informed enthusiast and readers simply seeking to become better acquainted with a musical giant. As eloquent a writer as he is a musician, Gardiner brings to his study the invaluable perspective of the practitioner.” Gardiner is Bach's most eloquent champion.”
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