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 (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...
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 (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 World War II. 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 distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects—and what it can tell us about Bach the man.
Gardiner’s background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinizing the music, and watching for those instances when Bach’s personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner’s aim is “to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music.”
It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner 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.
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John Eliot Gardiner is one of the world’s leading conductors, not only of Baroque music but across the whole repertoire. He founded the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. He has conducted most of the world’s great orchestras and in many of the leading opera houses. He l...
John Eliot Gardiner is one of the world’s leading conductors, not only of Baroque music but across the whole repertoire. He founded the Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Lyon, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique. He has conducted most of the world’s great orchestras and in many of the leading opera houses. He lives and farms in Dorset, England.
The torsional pressure – on Saul and the listener – now begins to increase as one of the tenors detaches himself from the rest (still chanting Was verfolgst du mich) and starts bawling out Saul’s name in long emphatic notes – three times and at rising pitches, hoisting the whole ensemble upwards. From this climax, with all fourteen voices baying at full volume, the music gradually subsides to a whisper, leaving the protagonist and the listener all at sea, having witnessed what seems like the authentic voice of God. What Schütz did here made it possible for future composers to make a single word stand out with sudden monumental significance, so that a hundred years later Bach could break in on Pilate’s questioning with a savage shout of ‘Barrabas!’ and a hundred years after that Verdi ‘coul... (查看原文)
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5 有用 changanxiyu 2014-05-17 19:21:50
这本书陪伴我好几个月才断断续续读完，中间有跳过的部分，也有对着唱片细听莞尔的地方。加迪那毕竟是一个自称的chorus man，基本都是从巴赫的声乐作品来分析。我喜欢他的遣词造句，喜欢他潜入文本和音符用一种历史研究的态度平衡了诗意和逻辑。也许我是对于加迪那本人，这个随心在不同领域间切换的幸运儿长久以来有种仰慕和眷念。
1 有用 钚Janus 2022-11-28 04:05:59 美国
巴赫创作了如此美妙的音乐，但是谁说光靠才华就可以活于世间？拖家带口子嗣早夭，即使是身兼数职，常年007，依然挣扎在贫困线。 。。
0 有用 Linnet 2023-03-17 01:02:32 山东
在写MUSC 130 Journal 1时所涉及的参考文献
1 有用 ashes要打坐 2021-01-06 23:23:37
为啥买了才发现电子版……
1 有用 STEIN 2016-12-25 21:10:09
据说Knopf这版要更好一些。圣诞节读完。假工脑洞够大，但是不得不佩服人家学识。