From the archives
Jul 08, 2021
1 minute
In the family home, a painting of JS Bach stared down at the young John Eliot Gardiner with a severity at odds with what he discovered in Bach’s music. (104 CDs) is alphabetically arranged,in the 1980s and ’90s; milestones in historically informed performance that have hardly dated. Then follows Beethoven with the Orchestre Révolutionaire et Romantique in recordings that had a significant impact on the acceptance of period instrument performances: the symphonies, piano concertos with Robert Levin and the are still thrillingly alive over a quarter-of-a-century later.
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