Gretchen Ehrenberg wrote:

It truly hurt my Bavarian ears to hear the dismal concert by the Wiener
Philharmoniker under Nikolaus Harnoncourt.  Truly dreadful.  I considered
his conducting to be the aural equivalent of a valium.

I cannot agree more: a sign of how the emperor is ever more naked....and
we are supposed to not notice that its all marketing strategy at the
cost of sacrificing the music itself.

Arnold Bosman