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Performer: Sir Roger Norrington

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Sir Roger, over and out: Norrington bids a fond farewell with Haydn

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After decades as a period instrument revolutionary, the 87-year old conductor bows out with “Dr Haydn's London Academy”, an entertaining recreation of concert-going in the 1790s.
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Roll over Beethoven! Sir Roger Norrington parties like it’s 1985

Norrington was at the forefront of the period instrument revolution in Beethoven performance practice. Here, he returned to the Queen Elizabeth Hall with two major key symphonies. 
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Norrington and LPO provide emotion and insight in Dido and Aeneas

Sir Roger Norrington and a strong cast joined a Baroque-style London Philharmonic Orchestra in a highly accomplished Dido and Aeneas, preceded by Handel’s clean and stately Water Music.
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Obituary: Sir Roger Norrington

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The pioneering conductor of the London Classical Players and the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment has died, aged 91.

Berlioz 150: The Amazing Fantastique

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Sir Roger Norrington explores the history of “the first truly Romantic score in history” and recounts his experiences performing it. 

Richard Wagner und die historische Aufführungspraxis

Auch wenn es „den einen unwiderruflichen Originalklang nicht geben kann", Concerto Köln und Kent Nagano versuchen sich dennoch an Wagners Ring.