Bücher von John Eliot Gardiner

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 the Second World War. 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, which explains 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, scrutinising 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.SIR 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'Op ra de Lyon, the English Baroque Soloists, and the Orchestre Revolutionnaire 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.

Seit seiner Jugend beschäftigt sich John Eliot Gardiner mit der Musik Johann Sebastian Bachs. Dass er heute als Dirigent der Werke des Thomaskantors international Maßstäbe setzt, ist nicht nur eine Sache enormer Begabung und jahrzehntelanger Erfahrung: Gardiner zählt auch zu den besten Kennern des Lebens und des historischen Umfelds Johann Sebastian Bachs. Großer Künstler und gründlicher Historiker in einer Person, gelingt es ihm in diesem Buch auf einzigartige Weise, Bachs Welt mit unserer Gegenwart zu verbinden.

Mit Johann Sebastian Bach ist John Eliot Gardiner seit seiner Kindheit verbunden: Auf dem Weg ins Kinderzimmer begleitete ihn von einem Bild herab stets der strenge Blick des Thomaskantors. Heute ist Gardiner der bedeutendste Bach-Interpret unserer Zeit, kaum einer hat sich mit solcher Leidenschaft und solchem Kenntnisreichtum mit dem großen Komponisten beschäftigt. Nun legt der weltberühmte Dirigent ein Porträt des Komponisten und Menschen Bach vor einem großen Panorama der damaligen Zeit vor. Bachs Musik kommt aus einer Welt großer Ängste und großer Hoffnungen - Erfahrungen, die auch einem heutigen Hörer nicht fremd sind. Gardiner gelingt es auf einzigartige Weise, Bachs Welt des Barock mit unserer Gegenwart zu verbinden.