PENGUIN ORANGE SPINES : MUSIC IN THE CASTLE OF HEAVEN : A PORTRAIT OF JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH PB – JOHN ELIOT GARDINER

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.