Re: Hurwitz on Marriner's Handel

On 10/07/2024 16:58, Herman wrote:
 > 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.
I (who never received any training in music) suspect Hurwitz is referring to the LP market and the general LP buying public.
Could it be that around 1970, the overwhelming majority of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi and Haydn recordings were not really 'historically informed' à la Leonhardt, Harnoncourt, Pinnock and Gardiner, and made with modern instruments?
I suppose Karl Richter was no idiot and knew something, but it's my understanding that he's not considered a 'historically informed' musician.
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Roland van Gaalen
The Netherlands