Re: Hurwitz on Marriner's Handel

Predictably, two minutes in, in Hurwitz's video on Marriner, the lying
begins.
"In the late sixties, early seventies, there was no period instrument
revolution yet."
Harnoncourt's Concentus Musicus Wien was started in 1953. Next year
Gustav Leonhardt recorded the first set of Bach Cantatas. Sure, England
was slow and insular, however Trevor Pinnock and The English Concert
started playing on period instruments in 1972. Pinnock had been  part of
St Martin's in the Fields.
Anglo-American critics of HIP always try to make it sound as if playing
on period instruments is just a recent fad. That is a lie.