At the age of 86 Nikolaus Harnoncourt has declared this will be his final recording. Returning to the Concentus Musicus Wien, founded by Harnoncourt in 1953 and one of the earliest period-instrument ...

We are currently blessed with an embarrassment of riches from the ongoing recording of Beethoven symphony cycles by two fine orchestras and conductors. In the recent articles Two Beethoven Fifths and ...

I wrote about Beethoven earlier today — Thursdays are slow around here, and I’m trying to get the election out of my head, and music is always good — and one of the commenters mentioned the boxed set ...

VIENNA (AP) — Nikolaus Harnoncourt stepped down from the podium last year in the same manner that characterized his work as one of the world’s famous conductors. With style, but without fanfare. “Dear ...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt is a man with restless obsessions and an abiding curiosity about the mystery known as music. He’s a conductor who has no use for the star-maestro syndrome, and he looks ...

Nikolaus Harnoncourt stepped down from the podium last December in the manner that had characterised his work as one of the world's leading conductors – with style but without fanfare. “Dear public,” ...