Why is it "news" that Karajan hated Harnoncourt's guts? Surprise, surprise. Harnoncourt stood for everything Karajan wasn't. The thought of Bernstein and Harnoncourt, well...;. Harnoncourt, like most truly original personages, didn't need anyone else to prove himself. HERE is a link to Harnoncourt's magnificent Salzburg Mozart concert in 2012 : "Litaniae de venerabili altaris sacramento KV 243 et la Messe longue en do majeur KV 262. Les solistes Sylvia Schwartz (soprano), Elisabeth von Magnus (mezzo-soprano), Jeremy Ovenden (ténor) et Florian Boesch (bariton) ont été accompagnés par le Arnold Schoenberg Chor et l'Ensemble für Alte Musik d'Harnoncourt, le Concentus Musicus de Wien." Total vindication ! Please also see my piece Nikolaus Harnoncourt : his true significance. Harnoncourt and those of his mindset - even with very different repertoires - transformed modern ideas on performance practice and made European music what it is today.
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