“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
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“In his imaginative response to Luther’s text, Bach makes us aware that music can do much more than merely mirror the words… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share Image
“The way we define opera circa 1700 may help us to throw light not just on the choices facing Bach and his brilliant peer… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share
“Music had shown that it could now articulate, reflect and project a sense of an established secular order – hence allowing the absolutist polemics… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share
“Talent [by which I think she meant technique] without genius is not worth much; but genius without talent is worth nothing whatsoever.” — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share
“We shall see shortly that Bach was to seize on a mutant type of opera that was to serve his purpose when composing the… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share
“In his imaginative response to Luther’s text, Bach makes us aware that music can do much more than merely mirror the words from start… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share
“This faculty is mother wit, the creative power through which man is capable of recognising likenesses and making them himself. We see it in… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share
“His naivety was of the sort that Descartes no doubt had in mind when he concluded that the study of history, like travel, while… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share
“Mattheson was perhaps too clever for his own good; nonetheless the smart money was on this sophisticated and broadly educated polymath. Later on he… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share
“Kepler reportedly said, amid the massacres of religious wars, the laws of elliptical motion belong to no man or principality.’17 The same could be… — John Eliot Gardiner Copy Share
