Gershwin: Porgy and Bess: Nikolaus Harnoncourt | CD review

(RCA, three CDs)As he approaches his 80th birthday next month, Nikolaus Harnoncourt shows no sign of reining in his insatiable musical curiosity. Harnoncourt is one of the true pioneers of period-instrument performances in the 1960s and 70s and a musician immersed in the central European performing tradition, so the idea of him conducting such an archetypal American opera as Porgy and Bess with the energy and understanding he shows here seems almost surreal. But as the booklet accompanying this ...

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