J.S. BACH, a provincial musician admired for his organ playing in eighteenth-century Leipzig, is among humanity’s most distant envoys. The so-called “Golden Record”, an LP affixed to the Voyager 1 probe at the edge of our solar system, contains three of his pieces.
22 February 2024, The Tablet
Bach to the space age
A composer goes cosmic
This is Bach with a secular-scientific slant.
ALAMY/LEBRECHT MUSIC & ARTS
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