Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Vienna Philharmonic for the opening concert of the 2009 Salzburg Festival. Honouring the conductor on his 80th birthday, the concert pays homage to the Viennese dance and includes pieces by Josef Strauss, Anton Webern and Franz Schubert.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads the Arnold Schoenberg Chor and the Concentus Musicus Wien in live performances from the 'Ouverture Spirituelle' concert series, recorded at the Salzburg Festival in 2012. Focusing on religious themes and musical works, the concert features performances of Mozart's 'Litaniae de Venerabili Altaris Sacramento K. 243' and 'Missa longa in C major K. 262'. The featured soloists are Sylvia Schwartz, Elisabeth Von Magnus, Jeremy Ovenden and Florian Boesch.

This collection of lectures, talks, and essays focuses on three major composers of the 17th and 18th centuries.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads the Concentus Musicus Wien in this production of Josef Haydn's opera 'Il Mondo Della Luna' recorded at the Theatre an der Wien in 2009. Performers include Dietrich Henschel, Bernard Richter and Vivica Genaux.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Wiener Philharmoniker in this performance of Haydn's oratorio, recorded in Salzburg's Great Festival Hall in July 2013. The concert also features the Konzertvereinigung Wiener Staatsopernchor and soloists Dorothea Röschmann, Michael Schade and Florian Boesch.

Filmed in November 1981 at the Musikverein, Vienna, Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts his Concentus Musicus Wien and the Konzertvereinig Wiener Staatsopernchor in a performance of Mozart's final work. The soloists include Rachel Yakar, Ortrun Wenkel, Kurt Equiluz and Robert Holl.

Juliane Banse and Shawn Mathey take the lead roles in this performance of Robert Schumann's only opera, featuring the opera and chorus of the Zurich Opera House, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt.

El dialogo musical entre cada una de las voces de la orquesta, asi como el dialogo imaginario entre la musica y el oyente, conforman el punto central de las consideraciones de Nikolaus Harnoncourt sobre la cuestion musical desde que identifico este dialogo -que abrio nuevos horizontes a sus propios criterios interpretativos- como medio esencial de expresion para los compositores entre finales del siglo XVI y del XIX. En un extenso analisis de las grandes obras de Monteverdi y Bach, nos muestra como ese dialogo musical puede volver a expresarse hoy en la ejecucion musical. Harnoncourt rinde cuentas de como en sus audiciones intenta conseguir, mediante la musica, la transformacion intelectual del oyente pretendida por el compositor. En la parte correspondiente a Mozart, el musico y estudioso demuestra con importantes ejemplos que la musica de este, en esencia siempre dramatica y caracterizada por fuertes contrastes animicos, adolece de una interpretacion erronea a causa de versiones carentes de contrastes sonoros y dominadas por un sentido erroneo del equilibrio.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducts the Zurich Opera Orchestra in this production of Mozart's classic opera, recorded live at the Zurich Opera House in 2006.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Choir in a performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. The performers featured include Marlis Petersen, Elisabeth Kulman, Werner Güra and Gerald Finlay.

Nikolaus Harnoncourt leads the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Netherlands Radio Choir in a performance of Beethoven's Missa Solemnis. The performers featured include Marlis Petersen, Elisabeth Kulman, Werner Güra and Gerald Finlay.