Musicians and Conductors who died in 2016

[Humoresque]

Let's try to remember some of the excellent musicians we lost in the art music world in 2016. My offering will be the great Nikolaus Harnoncourt. How fondly I remember his pre-concert talks in the Musikverein before conducting Concentus Musicus, Wien. Here he is with that group, and the Arnold Schoenberg Choir, performing a Bach cantata (BVW 61).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLPSQMOFxbA

[Peter]

Another great conductor Sir Neville-Marriner and two well known composers, Peter Maxwell Davis and Pierre Boulez are among those who have departed this year.

[Humoresque]

I've just learned about the death of the fine Hungarian pianist Zoltan Kocsis. Here he is playing Bartok:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTD3Khd3-lY