John Eliot Gardiner
Author
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First United States edition.
Language
English
Description
"An unprecedented book about one of the greatest of all composers, by his greatest modern interpreter. Johann Sebastian Bach is one of the most famously 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...
3) Eroica
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Period-drama depiction of the private, first performance of Beethoven's "Eroica" symphony at the Lobkowitz Palace in 1805, the momentous musical event that prompted composer Joseph Haydn to remark "Everything is different from today."
4) Les Troyens
Author
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
Sir John Eliot Gardiner conducts the Monteverdi Choir, Choeur du Theatre du Chatelet and Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique in Berlioz's towering opera, recorded in High Definition at Le Chatlet, Paris. With Gregory Kunde and Anna Caterina Antonacci.