Striking the balance between History & Instinct – between gut strings and gut reaction.

Part of the University of Southampton’s Arts & Humanities Festival

The first re-showing of a 90-minute survey of the aesthetic questions raised by the CD-fuelled Early Music boom of the 1980s. It was described by the Daily Telegraph as ‘the most literate and probing programme on music for many years’. It included performances and uncompromising opinions from major figures on each side of the ‘authenticity argument’: Pierre Boulez, Alfred Brendel, John Eliot Gardiner, Reinhard Goebel, Alan Hacker, Nicholas Kenyon, Otto Klemperer, Ton Koopman, Raymond Leppard, Roger Norrington, Bayan Northcott, Roger Scruton, Melvyn Tan, Jeffrey Tate, Mitsuko Uchida, David Wilson-Johnson, the London Classical Players & the London Mozart Players.

Presented by David Owen Norris
Produced by Jonathan Fulford

Followed by a Round Table with fortepianist Dominika Maszczynska and conductor Roger Hamilton, and contributions from the audience.

Admission FREE. Audience members must book a ticket