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Yet another book on Bach, are you kidding Fino? Well, yes and this one is really really good! John Eliot Gardner is one of the world's greatest performers of baroque music and this book provides insight into what for me would be the otherwise completely inaccessible world of Bach's choral music - all written in what is for me incomprehensible German. He has a great, entertaining writing style and I learned so much and loved learning about how I could appreciate the music despite not understanding the words. I even went to a performance of the Passion of Saint John at the Madeleine Church in Paris and was blown away (it did help to have printed programs with German on one side and French translation on the other but I was pissed off at a few of the editorial choices of the conductor who cut out some of the coolest parts that Gardiner had gotten me all would up about!). Needless to say, I would recommend reading Wolff's excellent Bach biography first but I would also insist that this book is a passionate and incredibly informative read as well.