Reinventing Bach: The Search for Transcendence in Sound

In Reinventing Bach, his remarkable second book, Paul Elie tells the electrifying story of how musicians of genius have made Bach's music new in our time, at once restoring Bach as a universally revered composer and revolutionizing the ways that music figures into our lives.



As a musician in eighteenth-century Germany, Bach was on the technological frontier. Two centuries later, pioneering musicians began to take advantage of breakthroughs in audio recording to make Bach's music the sound of...