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Music in the Castle of Heaven: A Portrait of Johann Sebastian Bach by Gardiner, John Eliot (2013) Hardcover (2013)

par John Eliot Gardiner

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"An unprecedented book about one of the greatest of all composers, by his greatest modern interpreter. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famously 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 the Second World War. 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 now distilled in this remarkable book, which explains in wonderful detail how Bach worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects--and what it can tell us about Bach the man. It is grounded in all the most recent Bach scholarship but moves far beyond it, and takes us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. This is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists"-- "From one of Bach's greatest living interpreters: a landmark study which explains in wonderful detail how the composer worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects--and what it can tell us about Bach the man. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famously 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 has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and the fruits of this lifetime's immersion are now distilled in this remarkable book. It is grounded in all the most recent Bach scholarship but moves far beyond it as well, taking us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. This is an unparalleled book about one of the greatest of all creative artists"--… (plus d'informations)
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To celebrate JEG's 80th birthday (which he marked on Radio 3 last Monday with a somewhat lugubrious performance of the B Minor Mass)I thought I would give this book another chance. To say it had glowing reviews when it came out would be an understatement. At the time I thought it overlong and more importantly it seemed to me that Gardiner couldn't decide if he was writing something for academics, choral conductors or the general reader and as a result there are real lurches and much incongrous tone and content.
I've come to the conclusion most critics maybe didn't read, well let's say quite of all it. You can imagine their thoughts as the book thudded through the door - 'it's by John Eliot Gardiner, it's really long and it's about Bach. It has to be a masterpiece and if I am really quick I can be the first one to use the word “magisterial”’. Well it's not a masterpiece, but there are obviously some insights. Maybe more editing could have helped but one suspects (just a feeling obviously given his relaxed and democratic approach to rehearsing) that JEG was probably not sympathetic to being rewritten. Oh well. There probably aren't many Dorest farmers who have written a book on Bach who are also conducting at the Coronation. ( )
  djh_1962 | Jan 7, 2024 |
Johann Sebastian Bach is regarded as one of the most enigmatic composers in music history. How could such beautiful work be produced by a man who appears so ordinary, so obscure - and oftentimes so intemperate (when we can distinguish his personality at all)?
Every morning and evening, John Eliot Gardiner passed one of the only two original paintings of Bach on the stairs of his parents' house, where it hung for safety during WWII. Since then, he has been studying and interpreting Bach, and is currently considered one of the composer's best living interpreters. This amazing book distills the fruits of a lifetime of immersion, founded in the most recent Bach study but pushing far beyond it. The breadth and depth of music analysis is astounding and sometimes difficult to decipher, but worthy of the genius on whom the book focuses. ( )
  jwhenderson | Feb 20, 2022 |
Johann Sebastian Bach es uno de los compositores más enigmáticos y complejos de la historia de la música.. Gardiner ha interpretado y estudiado a Bach desde su primera juventud hasta la actualidad, y es hoy uno de sus intérpretes más reconocidos. ( )
  hernanvillamil | Apr 2, 2020 |
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 religious at all - may find Bach's work to be the most important musical accomplishment of the last millennium.

This is not a standard biography; again that is fine, but if you want to know the basic data of Bach's life, this is not the place to start. (In spite of the book's 560 pages of text, Gardiner really does not touch upon J.S. Bach's family life at home, which is a little peculiar for a man whose wives went through twenty full-term pregnancies.)

Gardiner is an important and extremely accomplished musician, and it is very valuable to read this appreciation of the great composer written by someone who approaches him from that angle, from someone who understands how Bach's genius is expressed through performance. Just be aware that this should not be the first, and definitely not the last, book about Bach that you read. ( )
  yooperprof | Nov 27, 2016 |
Excellent book, hard going for a non-musician, though he does his darnedest to be non-technical . i listen to and love Bach's music a lot, but found it hard to know which bit was under discussion. Would be more accessible as a radio series with musical examples/quotations. What i did get was a sense of Bach's originality and creative force. Also how he fits into the context of his time (JEG, we discover, is a historian by training, not a musician).
Points of interest: JSB already being hired as consultant on new organ design at age 18; how slight musical alterations can express difference between Catholic & Lutheran beliefs; that JSB also wrote for Catholics though a passionate Protestant; how much documentation there is on the details of his activities, even though some whole works are lost; pettifogging beastliness of so many minor officials, bureaucrats, teachers, priest - no wonder he had a temper! ( )
  vguy | Jan 24, 2015 |
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ajouté par Delfi_r | modifierEl Periódico, Marta Cerevera (May 27, 2015)
 
La música en el castillo del cielo resulta una obra de múltiples acordes y armonías. Sus más de 900 páginas entremezclan la experiencia personal con la estricta biografía, pero también con la musicología y el análisis pormenorizado de las dos grandes Pasiones, la de san Mateo y la de san Juan, y algunas cantatas. En estas, además, Gardiner aborda el método, la extenuante periodicidad —prácticamente una a la semana durante algunos años— y su cadencia. También en la intrahistoria de esa lucha por la dignidad de la autoría, en la que Bach se empeñó para ser considerado más allá de un simple mayordomo al servicio de príncipes y pudientes.
ajouté par Delfi_r | modifierEl País, Jesús Ruiz Mantilla (May 25, 2015)
 

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"An unprecedented book about one of the greatest of all composers, by his greatest modern interpreter. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famously 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 the Second World War. 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 now distilled in this remarkable book, which explains in wonderful detail how Bach worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects--and what it can tell us about Bach the man. It is grounded in all the most recent Bach scholarship but moves far beyond it, and takes us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. This is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists"-- "From one of Bach's greatest living interpreters: a landmark study which explains in wonderful detail how the composer worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects--and what it can tell us about Bach the man. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famously 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 has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and the fruits of this lifetime's immersion are now distilled in this remarkable book. It is grounded in all the most recent Bach scholarship but moves far beyond it as well, taking us as deeply into Bach's works and mind as perhaps words can. This is an unparalleled book about one of the greatest of all creative artists"--

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