'Too operatic,' someone said in Leipzig, 'and too long!' One opinion of Bach's music, on his appointment to his last, longest and most famous post: Cantor of the City's Thomasschule ...
This film to mark the Bach tercentenary recounts the life of one of the world's greatest composers, seen from those Leipzig years and based on the records of the City Council, his employers. It's a story of Bach's fight to defend position, status, and, above all else, his music.
With Brian Cox as Bach Musical director
ROGER NORRINGTON with the LONDON BAROQUE PLAYERS (led by ROY GOODMAN ), the SCHÃTZ CHom and the boys of WESTMINSTER CATHEDRAL
CHOIR performing over 15 excerpts of Bach's music on period instruments and with the musical forces Bach would have used.
GILLIAN FISHER (soprano) STANISLAV HELLER (harpsichord solo)
PETER LE HURAY (organ) ANTHONY PLEETH (cello)
Photography COLIN WALDECK
Sound BRUCE GALLAWAY , ROB JAMES Designer DAVID MYERSCOUGH- JONES Film editor ARDAN FISHER
Written and directed by COLIN NEARS
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