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John Eliot Gardiner
Conductor
Sir John Eliot Gardiner CBE FKC is an English conductor and the author of Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven.
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Despite the misgivings of the clergy, Bach’s church cantatas and Passions are full of drama, internalizing and dramatizing “the situation of the individual believer, spectator or hearer.”
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Bach was not simply a compliant servant of the clergy of the church but expressed his own views as to how the Christian doctrine appealed to him and also how […]
Music is not always the compliant hand servant, the maid servant of text. It can operate according to its own rules and it can function quite differently.
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Gardiner, author of the new book, Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, has a unique perspective on Bach. He is both a historian and a world-renowned conductor who has […]