Harnoncourt: Mendelssohn, Wagner, Schumann album evaluate – revelatory readings from the late revolutionary
Ten years on from his death, this newly released stay recording from the 1999 Styriarte festival in Graz is a welcome reminder of Nikolaus Harnoncourt’s revolutionary formula to music. At its coronary heart is a uncommon – for him – foray into the enviornment of Richard Wagner, provocatively coupled with Mendelssohn and Schumann, two composers ...