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In the CD booklet note Nikolaus Harnoncourt goes into some detail about old-fashioned bowing techniques used by early conductors when performing the Brahms symphonies. He
Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s long period-performance experience impels him to deploy a Vienna Philharmonic that sounds little like the orchestra we expect in Brahms’ German Requiem–instead of
This performance, from the 1989 Vienna Festival, was greeted with rave reviews: “Profound, scrupulous, and boldly untraditional,” claimed Die Welt. By today’s standards this is
Like so many German stage directors working today, Nikolaus Harnoncourt does nothing without a “concept”. Sometimes these work and yield fascinating insights into music we
I fear that I’ll grow accustomed to the directorial fad designed to rip all the delight out of the Mozart/da Ponte operas, but I’m not
There have long been rumors circulating that some of Haydn’s operas were genuinely funny, but until this recording I doubted it. Nikolaus Harnoncourt has been
There is little known about the composition of Zaide; Mozart rarely mentions it in correspondence of the period. We do know that he began work
This production has real problems, even given the fact that La clemenza di Tito is an opera seria filled with stilted situations. The only characters
This second volume of early Mozart symphonies features a really biting, vivid performance of the “little G minor” K. 183, with its prominent writing for
No doubt, because of the conductor and esteemed performers involved, this new Messiah, recorded live in Vienna’s Musikvereinsaal in December 2004, will receive a high
