This is the second time I’m posting today. I wish I had better news. The conductor Frans Brüggen has died at the age of 79. Brüggen, who began his career as a recorder virtuoso, went on to become one of the leading lights of the period instrument movement. He cofounded the Orchestra of the Eighteenth Century in 1981.

You have to love a man who named his daughters Zephyr and Eos. Thank you, Maestro, especially for your illuminating Rameau performances.

Here’s Brüggen playing a sonata by Willem de Fesch, with Gustav Leonhardt on the harpsichord:

And conducting a selection from Rameau’s “Les Boréades”: