"We cannot do full justice to music from other periods unless we hear it as its creator did, and attempt to reproduce it, as far as possible, in the style and with the resources of the period when it was written" (Paul Badura-Skoda)
"I think that instruments from every period have effects and colours that cannot be reproduced on today's pianos—that compositions were always conceived with the instruments of their time in mind, and only on those can they achieve their full effect" (Anton Rubinstein, 1892)
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