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On Oct 26 British conductor Sir Roger Norrington and German pianist Lars Vogt teamed up for an all-Beethoven concert with the NHK Symphony Orchestra at the NHK hall in Tokyo, Japan. The result was ...
Throughout his musical career, Sir Roger Norrington has confronted musicians and audiences alike with the shock of the old. Not that other conductors ignore old music. Quite the contrary.
Sir Roger Norrington joins NPR's Fred Child in Salzburg for Mozart's birthday celebration. We hear the maestro leading the Camerata Salzburg in the Menuet from Mozart's Symphony No. 41 ...
We weren't. For two bars of the movement Mahler himself suggests it, "as an experiment". That's something I never knew. But with Norrington it's always fun learning. Many happy returns, Sir Roger.
In this program Norrington and Denk-each of whom has made a unique imprint on established concert repertoire-will explore some of the ideas that exchanged between three composers who knew and ...
LONDON (Reuters Life!) - It pleases British conductor Sir Roger Norrington no end that when he conducted a 16th century opera in Italy exactly as the composer intended, a reviewer called it ...
Declared "one of the great innovators of our musical life" (The Telegraph), Sir Roger Norrington, a revolutionary conductor and leading figure in historically informed performance, will conduct ...
As presented by Hannah French, this 1989 Prom features Sir Roger Norrington conducting his period-instrument London Classical Players - an ensemble he set up to explore the playing styles relating ...
Symphony No. 39 Sir Roger Norrington walks with Fred from NPR's palace away from home in Salzburg, to the concert hall where Norrington has to sit on his hands, while conductor Mark Wigglesworth ...
Violinist Daniel Hope will succeed Sir Roger Norrington as Music Director of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZKO) from 2016. Under Norrington, who became the Music Director in 2011, the orchestra have ...
As he bows out at 87, the popular maestro reflects on a career that has changed the way we hear classical music ...