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