The missus pointed me to this review of John Eliot Gardiner’s Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven. While it’s well worth reading in its entirety, I realize that’s asking a bit much. (I’m guessing that most of you look forward to a 3,500-word article about a long-dead German composer about as much as I do to the next season of Pregnant & Dating.)
At the very least, though, please take a moment to read the first four paragraphs, m’kay? I’ll wait.
Done? Great. Now a little insight from Arnold Schönberg, another German composer who died 200 years after Bach: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
