Harnoncourt
Britishnoun
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One example: She had collaborated on several projects with the late early music specialist Nikolaus Harnoncourt, but balked when he rather improbably proposed that she take on Verdi’s “Aida.”
From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 2019
Beethoven piano concertos are not entirely out of character for Aimard, who recorded them a number of years ago with the early music specialist Nikolaus Harnoncourt.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 1, 2017
Perhaps it takes an Austrian genius like Harnoncourt to understand the Fifth: his recording takes on a mystical air, with the first-movement Adagio-Allegro transformed into a dream sequence of marches and chorales.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 3, 2017
For Harnoncourt devotees, there is also previously unreleased Bach, Beethoven’s “Christus am Ölberge” and Dvorak’s “Stabat Mater.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 24, 2016
The conductor and expert on eighteenth-century music Nikolaus Harnoncourt describes the opera as ‘one of the best works in eighteenth-century music theatre’ - praise indeed from an impeccably knowledgeable source.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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