• how do performance practices change over time?
• how may the exploration of historical performance practices inform contemporary performance and understanding of mainstream repertoire?
• how does improvisation contribute to different performance practices and how may this affect their impact on audiences?
• what role may cross-arts collaboration play and how may it enrich contemporary performance practices?

Examples of recent projects and outputs

Bach Solo Sonatas and Partitas for violin: a recording which completes Jacqueline Ross' recordings of all solo violin music by JS Bach. This follows a period of research based on the study of contemporary performance practice and violin techniques, and the influences these had on the writing and interpretation of Bach.

An edition, commentary and recording of 15 Lieder von Franz Schubert für Clarinette & Pianoforte übertragen von Carl Baermann Op.88, directed by Jane Booth.

Gabriel Fauré, Incidental Music from 'Shylock', arranged for piano duet by Léon Boëllmann: the first recording of Fauré's incidental music for Edmond Haraucourt's play Shylock in a transcription by Léon Boëllmann, recorded by Ronan O'Hora and Graham Johnson for Hyperion Records.

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