Scene from: Great Composers: Bach
Composer: Johann Sebastian Bach
Conductor: John Eliot Gardiner, Mark Williams
The programme was filmed in all the locations in Germany where Bach lived and worked, and included extracts with: John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists performing the Mass in B minor; András Schiff playing the Goldberg Variations; English Baroque Soloists in the Brandenberg Concerto No.5; harpsichord player Ton Koopman, organist Peter Hurford, pianists Jacques Loussier and Joanna MacGregor performing various keyboard pieces. Biographical and critical commentary is provided by Christoph Wolff, Robert Marshall, Charles Rosen, Karen Armstrong and Jonathan Miller.
Catalogue: 5101154482