I would be interested in hearing cases and examples from the
pre-1750 period, instead of after it?
For example in the Monteverdi/Caccini/Cavalli repertoire, in Frescobaldi, in Lawes and Locke and Purcell??
By way of discussing the issue of "improvisation made permanent" in recordings, there's a discussion in the "News" section of the boards about the "Dionysian" aspect of live performance versus the "Apollonian" perfection of recordings, which picks-up a philosophical approach to music on which baroque performers and composers could not have have reasonably held any opinion