Featured artists:
Daniel Hope, Sebastian Knauer, Melvyn Tan, Nancy Argenta, Jane Eaglen, Marilyn Horne, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Yvonne Kenny, Kathleen Kuhlmann, Frederica von Stade, Dawn Upshaw, Deborah Voigt, Thomas Hampson, Chris Merritt, Mark Padmore, Samuel Ramey, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, John Mark Ainsley, Olaf Bar, Rockwell Blake, Andreas Schmidt, Sarah Walker, The Schütz Choir of London
Innovator, erudite, entertaining and acclaimed conductor Sir Roger Norrington founded the Schütz Choir, became founding music director of Kent Opera and established the London Classical Players, the period-instrument orchestra.
His recordings of historically informed Beethoven's complete symphonies with the later that opened his collaboration with EMI received unanimous critical acclaim. The success led to a busy and productive recording programme that covered music from Purcell and Handel to Wagner, Brahms and Bruckner, encompassing orchestral works, choral works and opera. A rich and varied collection of recordings released under EMI, Virgin and Warner Classics that illustrates the Guardian's observation: “arguably the most important British conductor of the last half century … a man who has emphatically changed classical music for the better.”
