J.S.Bach
occupies
a
pivotal
place in
the
history
of
music.His
compositions
reprensents
both the
height
of the
Baropue
and the
beginning
of the
Modern
Age of
music
.Filmed
in
Leipzig,London
and
America,this
documentary
both
fascinating
anf
authoritative
features
specialy-filmed
extracts
with
Jonh
Eliot
Grandiner
conducting
the
Monteverdi
Choir
and
English
Baropue
Soloists,
performing
the Mass
in B
minor,Andras
Schiff
playing
the
GoldBERG
variations,Jacques
Loussier
improvising
on the
Toccata
and
Fugue in
D minor
as well
as
demonstration
by Ton
Koopman,Tini
Mathot,Joanna
Macgregor
and the
Thomanerchor
of
leipzig.Biographical
and
critical
commemtary
is
provided
by
leading
Bach
scholar,Christoph
Wolff
and
Robert
Marshall,while
Charles
Rosen
and
Jonathan
Miller
dicuss
Bach's
masterpiece
the St.
Mathew
Passion.