The Future of the Past - Early Music Today: 17 N0vember

[doversoul1]

Nicholas Kenyon shows how the arrival of the CD ushered in fresh ways of selling the past.
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n today’s episode, Nicholas tells us how record companies rode the wave of the early music revival’s success, embracing the arrival of the CD and using it to sell the past in a fresh new way.
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bdjn

[MickyD]

Nicholas Kenyon shows how the arrival of the CD ushered in fresh ways of selling the past.
[…]
n today’s episode, Nicholas tells us how record companies rode the wave of the early music revival’s success, embracing the arrival of the CD and using it to sell the past in a fresh new way.
[…]
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000bdjn

Just listened to this...I enjoy Nick Kenyon's choices, but I'm not sure that he gets all of his memories right. For instance, in this episode he states that John Eliot Gardiner had been reticent to join the period instrument brigade at first, but some of his English Baroque Soloists recordings go back to the early 80s. I don't consider him a latecomer to the scene.

[Sir Velo]

Just listened to this...I enjoy Nick Kenyon's choices, but I'm not sure that he gets all of his memories right. For instance, in this episode he states that John Eliot Gardiner had been reticent to join the period instrument brigade at first, but some of his English Baroque Soloists recordings go back to the early 80s. I don't consider him a latecomer to the scene.

I agree. He also somewhat glossed over the huge resistance to the sound of HIPP instruments (particularly in orchestral and instrumental music) particularly in the 80s and 90s. Even today HIPP divides opinions more than practically anything else so to leave this area untouched is rather a black mark on this series.