This is the perspective totally new and extremely fruitful as John Eliot Gardiner presents Johann Sebastian Bach and his vocal works.
For someone who is not yet familiar with the great composer, it may be best to start with a less complex work, because it could probably seem too dense.
But who is passionate about Bach and felt the desire to learn more and more, Music heaven castle is a treasure, inasmuch as it puts into perspective, within their context, many elements already known but differently interconnected in other books of eminent musicologists. The author makes us enjoy her musical sensitivity and his experience as a choirmaster, somehow "colleague" Bach who also, as we know, practiced that activity when he was Cantor in Leipzig.
The view of the great musician what Gardiner is irreplaceable, because where lack of sources or traces about certain aspects, intuition and interpreter engineering, she is otherwise fill these empty and try to get instead of Bach himself.
It also evokes a striking manner, the fever of rehearsals when necessary to develop the following Sunday cantata by having just a week ahead, or upstream, the copy shop in Komponierstube ( Local composition) which bustled Master and his assistants copyists so that all the necessary copies of the work to be ready for the start of rehearsals, part after another ...
We savor this book slowly, to lose nothing, while having anxious to know the result, and with the project reread shortly ...
