![]() ![]() Matthew Passion, the motets and the Mass in B Minor. Gardiner takes us through the major types of works-the cantatas (including some interesting passages about the Coffee Cantata), the St. ![]() However, he recognizes human weaknesses, as well-for example, his contentious relationship with authority. Gardiner is an unabashed Bach fan, praising the composer throughout, even comparing his music to the voice of God. ![]() But all is in service to the principal item on his agenda: the music. Gardiner does explain the various geographical moves Bach made in his career, his duties in the various venues where he worked, the amazing demands from his employers-and from his own work ethic the author writes about Bach’s coevals, his marriages, and his children and extended family. But the author’s focus is not so much on the man but on the music. A celebrated conductor of baroque music debuts with an examination of Bach’s compositions, descriptions of various works and some inferences about the genius who created them.Īlthough Gardiner celebrates Bach’s accomplishments through this dense, demanding but rewarding work, he reminds readers continually that the composer was no saint-“a thoroughly imperfect being,” he calls him near the end. ![]()
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