When Nikolaus Harnoncourt founded the Concentus Musicus Wien in 1953, he can have had little inkling of what he had started. The period-instrument revolution effectively began right then; Harnoncourt ...

The Berlin-based RIAS Kammerchor excel in an all-Britten programme, while Vienna’s Concentus Musicus finish what Schubert started St Cecilia is best known as the patron saint of music, but it may all ...

Thrilling new interpretations of Mozart's final symphonies. Classic FM Drive Featured Album, 4 August 2014. The great conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt sees Mozart's last three symphonies effectively as ...

Last but never least was Mozart's wife, Constanza. For her, Wolfgang wrote the Great C Minor Mass. The Domine and Benedictus are sung by Krisztina Laki, Zsuzsanna Denes, Kurt Equiluz, and Robert Holt, ...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt, the conductor, who has died aged 86, was a scion of the Hapsburg family, pioneer of the period instrument movement and one of the most important collectors of historical musical ...

Haydn: Orlando Paladino. Soloists, Concentus Musicus Wien, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt (2 CDs, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi 82876 73370 2, full price. WE tend to forget that Haydn wrote operas: this ...

It is, astonishingly, 50 years since a young Austrian cellist called Nikolaus Harnoncourt first set up his Concentus Musicus Wien to explore the possibilities of period-instrument performance. Ever ...

NEW YORK — Nikolaus Harnoncourt, a pioneering and influential early-music specialist and respected mainstream maestro, died Saturday in the village of St. Georgen in Attergau, west of Salzburg. He was ...