Great interview with John Eliot Gardiner

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Ericus Rex

Great interview with John Eliot Gardiner
« on: 7 Jan 2014, 11:11 pm »
Re-broadcast tonight at 8 on WBUR's On Point with Tom Ashbrook.  Interview about the cantatas of Bach.  Well worth a listen.


http://onpoint.wbur.org/

Photon46

Re: Great interview with John Eliot Gardiner
« Reply #1 on: 8 Jan 2014, 11:57 am »
Thanks for the heads up. Love old Bach and Gardiner's interpretations of his work. If you want an excellent read, I just finished James Gaines "Evening in the Palace of Reason." A superb bit of historical biography about the intersection/collision of Baroque and Enlightenment philosophy through the personalities of J.S. Bach and Frederick the Great. One of the best books in that genre of literature I've ever had the pleasure to read. Made me appreciate so many more nuances of Bach's work.