The conductor transforming period performance
The conductor Francois-Xavier Roth at the Philharmonie de Paris, June 15, 2021. Roth says that his ensemble, Les Siecles, shows that it has finally become possible for a single orchestra to perform all the different repertoires on all the appropriate instruments. Jonas Unger/The New York Times.
by David Allen
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- Think of the period or historically informed performance movement, and the mind probably turns to Monteverdi, Bach, Handel. The first advocates for performances on original instruments post-World War II insurgents like Nikolaus Harnoncourt concentrated their initial work on the Baroque and then Classical repertories, the music in which their findings were most audibly different compared with then-standard practices.
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