"Neville Marriner... figured prominently in debates over how music from the early modern period... should be played in the present day."

"He advocated smaller, more agile groups for early music, and he remained committed to playing that repertoire with modern instruments, even as an insurgent movement urged a return to instruments and styles that had been in use in the 17th and 18th centuries. Mr. Marriner dismissed the insurgents as 'the open-toed-sandals and brown-bread set,' but their rebellion soon achieved a measure of success and eventually became its own kind of establishment."

From the NYT obituary, quoted by my son John, who has collected a number of articles and videos at Facebook.