It never happens often enough, but now and then, a subject gets the book it deserves. So it is with John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven, a biography so thoughtful, ...

Master conductor Sir John Eliot Gardiner on the earthly and heavenly Johann Sebastian Bach. Conductor, scholar, and famed interpreter of Baroque music Sir John Eliot Gardiner (Matthias Baus). The ...

Musicians in Scotland with long enough memories and a love of Bach will remember the name of Peter Williams. From 1962-85 he was a internationally acclaimed senior member of staff within the Edinburgh ...

It was the biologist and popular author Lewis Thomas, writing in Lives of a Cell, who proposed that mankind use Bach’s music to say hello to any sentient life in the universe. Thomas recommended ...

The probably most famous classical music composer has spurred numerous biographies and has many fans around the world. Yet little is known about Johann Sebastian Bach as a person. Since Johann ...

IT IS the defining signature of Western music. In German notation, B-A-C-H spells out B? A C B natural. It turns up in the very last pages of The Art of Fugue, that extraordinary musical logarithm ...