Nikolaus Harnoncourt's influence on musical performance was transformative. In the 1950s, already established as an orchestral cellist in Vienna, he struck a new path by founding Concentus Musicus...
The concerts that occur each year at the Salzburg Festival are undoubtedly some of the finest performances in the world. Established in 1920, the Festival is held each summer in the Austrian town of...
Director Sven-Eric Bechtolf pulls off a brilliant coup with the high aesthetics of this intrigue, a masterful parody of the "everything is possible" of our time - flanked by an ensemble of exquisite...
Mozart: Don Giovanni 3CD Mozart's magnificent dramma giocoso is an opera of extremes and ambiguities, and Nikolaus Harnoncourt - always intrepid and imaginative - explores them to thrilling effect...