Stephen Walsh

Was Bach as boring as this picture suggests?

The composer was a complex genius, shows John Eliot Gardiner in Music in the Castle of Heaven

J.S. Bach: more complex and human than the Haussmann portrait suggests. Credit: Mary Evans Picture Library

  • Music in the Castle of Heaven

    John Eliot Gardiner

    Allen Lane, pp. 629

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