The Early Music Legend

Blogger Ref  http://www.youtube.com/Searle8          « on: February 10, 2009, 11:57:10 AM » These are some references from the net to certain happenings with Hogwood, and DM. The following seems to do with their experiences in Czechslovakia.. I (Hogwood) used to do some translating for Kricka, the son of the composer, a very elegant man, who ran the Supraphon records. I met Milan Munclinger and his group, Venhoda ... At Christmas. David Munrow came to see me--he was very interested to see what was happening here and they all came to talk to him because he was already quite known for medieval music playing. So we did a little show on radio, It was very mutual exchange. ref  There are many things to finish: interview with Chistopher Hogwood. Czech Music,01-JUL-03,Brezina, Ales. This little show on radio may be the same one which DM mentioned in a letter to someone in authority in the BBC, and which appeared in Humphrey ...

Christopher Hogwood was a conductor and scholar whose extensive research led to a resurgence in interest in early music (I was told recently that Hogwood was on the "way out" so to speak. Hence, this post which has relevance, as he played a pivotal part in David Munrow's Early Music Consort of London. Indeed, he was a founder member of it. Also, I did try to contact him on the phone many moons ago. Instead of Hogwood, I talked to his secretary as he was on Tour. I was hoping to ask him about whether he would write anything more about David Munrow. However, at a later stage I contacted his secretary again, and she said that she had passed the message on to him. She said he replied by saying he had "written enough" about Munrow. RS blogger) Christopher Hogwood   Photo: THIERRY MARTINOT 6:22PM BST 25 Sep 2014/Telegraph         Christopher Hogwood, the conductor, who has ...

Peter Dickinson : Translations -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- commissioned by David Munrow, Oliver Brookes & Christopher Hogwood Publisher Novello & Co Ltd Category Works for 2-6 Players Year Composed 1971 Duration 15 Minutes Orchestration rec.vadg.hpd Availability Hire  Explain this... -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Programme Note This work, in a single movement, was commissioned by David Munrow, Oliver Brookes and Christopher Hogwood for first performance at a concert at the Purcell Room on 20th February 1971. Its starting point was a series of chords playable on the treble recorder with an extra one played on a stopped descant. The expressive range of the instrument is thus extended and modern techniques of sul pont, col legno and others are applied to the gamba. I collaborated with the players in investigating these possibilities and found this most reward...

The Full Opernwelt Interview. « on: October 22, 2011, 09:51:43 am » A part, or parts of the following may have been used before here (I will check sometime) but this is the full interview with Christopher Hogwood where there is some talk about Munrow, and his Consort Opernwelt interview (1984) August 2, 2007 Dorottya Fabian’s new book, Bach Performance Practice, 1945–1975 (Ashgate, 2003) contains a quotation from an interview which Christopher gave to Gerhard Persché in 1984, translated by John Kehoe. To provide the full context for that quotation, here is the full text of the interview, provided by Dorottya Fabian and reproduced with the permission of Opernwelt: Authenticity is not academic a conversation from 1984 with Christopher Hogwood, the guiding spirit of The Academy of Ancient Music. Opernwelt: Mr Hogwood, ‘early’ music in ‘authentic sound’ — is that in fact as Neville Marriner once formulated it, ‘very popular with the open-toed-sandals- and-brow...

DAVID MUNROW Talks to ALAN BLYTH BOTH times David Munrow has arrived on my I-, doorstep he has been accompanied by what I imagine is about his most prized possession, his case of recorders, made specially for him and carefully designed to fit under plane seats. It contains instruments in all shapes and sizes and of all ages, including the tiny one on which he plays the tune that introduces his highly successful Radio 3 series, Pied Piper. He talks, in interview, as easily and fluently as he does on that programme, and last time we met the first subject was records and recorders as he has two discs of solo music soon to be issued. "One is for EMI", he told me, "and contains two staple baroque works—the Sammartini Concerto in F for descant recorder and the Telemann Suite in A minor for treble recorder, which I regret to say is still too often played by a flute. Both of these are with the Academy of St Martin's. And we've also included an interesting pi...