How about ignoring Norrington?

I wouldn't go that far in dissing
Norrington. Yes, he can be awfully dogmatic
and his performances wrong-headed, and I
have always found his arrogance about having found the one and only "right" way
to perform music, as if there were such a thing extremely irritating, but some of his performances
have actually seemed pretty good to me.
And several years ago, I heard a WQXR broadcast of the San Francisco symphony where he gave some terrific performances
of 20th century English music.
He's not a bad musician, just terribly misguided.

I agree totally about Mr Norrington's utter unmusicality. His performances consistently make me cringe, to the extent that my friends know instantly who I'm talking about when I mention 'The Poisoned Pixie'. One instance I remember as especially cringe-worthy was listening to a performance on radio of Wagner's Rienzi overture which had me howling in disbelief. When the announcer mentioned that Roger had been wielding the baton it served to reinforce my utter dislike of the work of this perpetrator of soullessness. This nonsense about Elgar without vibrato is just another instance of the man's myopic approach.