Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven Ballet Books and smarts is takes to

and smarts is takes to be a dancer

a miniature red and white nutcracker

his relationship with his wife

the work in which the composer first dramatised the Faustian struggle of a creative artist in whom 'two souls dwell

Adelina Scarabelli

Bach: Music in the Castle of Heaven Ballet Books and smarts is takes toJohann Sebastian Bach is one of the most unfathomable composers in the history of music. How can such sublime work have been produced by a man who seems so ordinary, so opaqueand occasionally so intemperate? John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every day on the stairs of his parents house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now