 What I really had in mind was a journey of discovery into the unknown . Although I felt there were excellent interpretations of baroque music performed on modern instruments , I sensed that we 'd come to the end of the road – and yet I knew that there were still discoveries to be made . I was thinking about the interesting experiments made by Nikolaus Harnoncourt and Gustav Leonhardt , although I knew we 'd have to experiment in our own way . It was a huge challenge ; playing period instruments wasn 't as easy as it is today , and finding out their secrets was a difficult process . Nowadays an extraordinarily high technical level has been achieved and the upcoming generations don 't have any of the problems we pioneers faced . We cleared the way . 
