ABSTRACT
More commonly, though, musicians, especially younger ones, who are regularly involved in performing historical repertoires with period instruments, are genuinely interested and open to new approaches. Performers may share some of the feelings, depending on the sophistication of their involvement with historically-informed performance. To some, however, it may merely be a job; in London especially, many musicians who spend most of their professional lives performing in a standard contemporary manner will double as historically-informed performers when they have the chance to earn additional income by this means. Among the most prominent of Mendelssohn's proteges who lived long enough to make recordings were the pianist Carl Reinecke and the violinist Joseph Joachim. A feature of Carl Reinecke's playing that links him with other members of the Mendelssohn/Leipzig tradition is the manner in which he departs substantially from the literal notated rhythms of the music he performs.
