MUSIC IN THE CASTLE OF HEAVEN

Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history o
f music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordi
nary, so opaque - and occasionally so intemperate? In this remarkable book, John
Eliot Gardiner distills the fruits of a lifetime's immersion as one of Bach's g
reatest 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.