The Early Music Legend

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The Margot Leigh Milner Lecture 2010



Edward Breen
‘Do you feel somehow something that you began with Musica Reservata has somehow
been leapt upon by practically everyone else in sight?’ asked Tony Palmer in an interview
for LBC radio in the mid-1970s. ‘Well I suppose one can’t really say things like that,
[pause] but in fact I do!’ replied Michael Morrow.1 Did Tony Palmer or Michael Morrow


have David Munrow in mind during that exchange? If either of them were thinking of
Munrow it should not have come as a surprise because he was, at that time, the other
towering figure on the English Early Music scene. But does this candid exchange
accurately represent the situation between two of the BBC’s most prolific early music
specialists of the early 1970s? A quick glance through the concert programming of the
ensembles directed by these two men certainly suggests that Munrow was influenced by
his work as a performer in Musica Reservata, and this experience was heavily reflected in
his choice of…