The Early Music Legend

Blogger Ref  http://youtube.com/Searle8 The following is some details from the radio series of the Hobbit. David Cain wrote the music, and Munrow and his consort performed it. I had contact with Cain a long time ago. He claimed that David Munrow nearly killed himself on a dish of curry!   RS Music by David Cain/Ref source Discogs David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London play music by David Cain The Hobbit - Hajji Baba - The Jew of Malta - Much ado about nothing The Early Music Consort of London - David Munrow, dir. BBC records REC 91S [LP] Contents: David Cain: The Hobbit Opening And Bilbo's Theme Elves' Dances Bilbo's Lullaby Fanfare And Dance In Esgaroth James Morier (t) / David Cain (m): Hajji Baba Zeenab And Hajji Brigands' Song In Teheran Hajji's Dance Love Is No Rare Commodity I Weighed Thy Beauty King Hajji ---- Christopher Marlowe (t) / David Cain (m): The Jew of Malta Opening Night On The Canal The Market Come ...

A Sagbutt, a Minnikin, and a Flemish Clackett was a short but unusual radio programme which took a Pythonesque "look" at early musical instruments. It is believed to have been written by David Cain, and I recall hearing it once, or twice a long while ago. Undoubtedly, Munrow would have heard it too. Here is an article in connection with this matter, and "related "topics... R.Searle Old before their time Independent, The (London) ,  Mar 3, 1995   by Bayan Northcott Late one evening, towards the end of the 1960s, the BBC Third Programme broadcast a mysterious little feature entitled - if memory serves - The Shagbutt, the Minikin and the Flemish Clackett.  These turned out to comprise a consort of exceedingly obsolete instruments from the 15th century. According to the announcer, the minikin had a keyboard action so slow that the performer - on this occasion, the redoubtable Tatiana Splod of the Schola Cantorum Neasdeniensis - was obliged to start playing f...