Here's the Concertgebouw with John Eliot Gardiner

in the presence of Queen Beatrix, I think, and with authentic instruments.

Note the funky sackbutts and trumpets, and the weedy woodwind. They're playing for all they're worth and you can hardly hear them. The fiddles hold their bows differently, too. Everything is lighter and more transparent.

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