Includes full-length CD from the Bach Collegium Japan.

J.S. Bach – A Listener's Guide to His Choral Music introduces the general listener to a genre of music that is mistakenly supposed to be“difficult.” A vivid biographical sketch of Bach's life and times provides the necessary background. The book then takes on the question “What is a cantata?” and guides the listener systematically throughfugue, recitative, and aria. The author chooses 30 of Bach's 200 churc...