Bach: BBC TV Documentary

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Bach: BBC TV series (playlist)
John Eliot Gardiner
 John Eliot Gardiner

Filmed in Leipzig, London and America, this documentary both fascinating and authoritative features specialy-filmed extracts with John Eliot Gardiner,
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
Joanna MacGregor
 Joanna MacGregor
leading Bach scholar, Christoph Wolff and Robert Marshall,
while Charles Rosen and Jonathan Miller dicuss
Bach's masterpiece the St. Mathew Passion.