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Pablo Massa notes:
>Since 20 years or little more, the recording market offers almost
>everything concerning Medieval and Renaissance music.
He then asks:
>1) Was there actually a "boom", or the spectrum of ancient music
>recordings simply grew along (or proportionally to) the increasing
>global discographic offer?. 2) If it existed, how exactly may this
>discgraphic "boom" be dated?. 2) Why happened then and not before?.
The "Early Music" boom actually goes back considerably further, to the
10-15 years following WWII. Two giant influences were Noah Greenberg
and his group, the New York Pro Musica; and Safford Cape and his group,
the Pro Musica Antiqua of Brussells. Other groups (such as Charles
Ravier's Ensemble Polyphonique de Paris) added momentum a little later.
The performances by these bands, and then their recordings on LP, created
the enthusiasm for early music in the music-loving public which has never
abated. I still own some of those LPs, including a Josquin anthology by
Cape's group (EMS 213) which must be one of the most beautiful records ever
pressed.
It would be interesting to know whether Cape and Greenberg knew each other,
or indeed ever met. [Does any Listmember know the answer?] Pablo raises
an interesting, deeper question: what was it that made the music-loving
public READY for an early music revival in the post-war period?
Jon Gallant [[log in to unmask]] and Dr. Phage
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