Gardiner's new book was more than 12 years in the making, and one of its goals is to get to know Bach the man a little better, since scant information has been passed down about his personal life.

Bach in his full grieving glory remains confined to the screen, but how good to catch it all in performances from Oxford’s Sheldonian Theatre and Stockholm’s Berwald Hall, home to the Swedish Radio ...

In the historic Weimar Herder Church Sir John Eliot Gardiner finds the perfect setting for his recording of the Bach Christmas Oratorio. Against the backdrop of the dramatic altar and Lucas Granach ...