For some years at the start of his career, the conductor Roger Norrington pursued his musical activities outside office hours. Twenty years ago he made the break by founding the Heinrich Schutz Choir, leading a crusade on behalf of this then little-known master, and thereby establishing his own reputation as a performer of pre-classical music. His choice of music ranges far and wide, from Schutz and Bach to Bartok and Pee Wee Hunt playing Twelfth Street rag
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