Penguin 2014. Soft cover, 629 pp
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? 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. The result is a unique book about one of the
greatest of all creative artists.