Why I love Porgy and Bess by Nikolaus Harnoncourt

Nikolaus Harnoncourt is finally to fulfil a 75-year ambition to conduct Porgy and Bess'It was like a worm in my liver. I had the feeling I must perform it." Nikolaus Harnoncourt is talking about one of his favourite pieces of music, one he spent much of this summer conducting. This is a musician who has revitalised our approach to virtually the entire canon of western classical music over the last 50 years, everything from Bach to Bruckner, and Beethoven to Berg, so you would have thought he mus...

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