There is a good selection of violinists from Benedetti’s generation who have carried off the shift part time from modern string tradition to period instruments, perhaps Isabelle Faust and Alina Ibragimova principally among them…
If you are looking for a baroque version of Al Pacino and references to horses’ heads under the heading of The Godfather, you can forget it. The Godfather here is derived from the convoluted reasoning that all these composers knew and were in some way ‘godfathers’ to each other’s music, as represented by the violinist Johann Pisendel, who was friends with all of them….