Practice in Context : Historically Informed Practices in Nineteenth-Century Instrumental Music

Historical performance research is undergoing a transformation as the research from different centers intersects in new ways.Practice in Context reflects this vibrant, diverse, and evolving field. The Historically Informed Performance --shorted to HIP-- movement first dipped its toe into the nineteenth century by tackling the symphonies of Beethoven in the nineteen eighties.Since then, there has been a burgeoning of performances and recordings of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century repertoire on period instruments.But the advance of HIP into post-Classical repertoires has exposed the specific challenges nineteenth-century historical performance styles present to a 'period' movement that is characterised by crisp, clean, light playing.Historically evidenced nineteenth-century style remains elusive to many professional performers even after four decades of marketing 'period' performances of this repertoire.A real transformation of professional post-Classical HIP will only be possible