The Early Music Legend

Munrow briefly interviewed Kenneth Clarke  on Pied Piper. The former also along with Early Music Consort of London did some work for a documentary entitled Carved in Ivory.  Kenneth Clarke wrote, and narrated it. Ofcourse, recordings of the Early Music Consort have been used on a number of programmes (eg. if I recall correctly the Battaille at the end of the BBC  Its Royal Knock Out programme, and circa 1993 there was another BBC programme in which some  pieces from the Medieval Sound dealing the Grimms Faiytales were seemingly used) Carved in Ivory Series  Part  Date  1975 Director  Michael Gill Production Company  Synopsis  Examples of the work of British ivory carvers in the 7th to 12th centuries; filmed at the Victoria and Albert Museum, Huly 1974, and at Kilpeck Church, Herefordshire.. Minutes  24 min Choreographer  Full synopsis  ACE051.2 10:00:00 10:12:10 Credits. Carved ivory comb, Viking dragon hea...

Blogger Ref  http://www.youtube.com/Searle8 As a teenager I was fascinated by history, and art. My first introduction to Early Music proper was via a Munrow record. In the early 70s his Early Music Consort dominated the scene unlike now where there are any number of ensembles dealing with medieval, and renaissance music such as Piffaro, the Clemencic Consort, the Orlando Consort, Gothic Voices, et al. Anyway, on occasion I would listen to Pied Piper on the radio especially when it dealt with Early Music. I notably recall the Feast of the Pheasant which drew its musical extracts from Munrow's own record album of The Art of Courtly Love. It was clear that he used his own printed "notes" from this recording for this broadcast. I seem to recall too a show on Pied Piper of his Se La Face Ay Pale by Dufay. He referred to it as being "rich, and expressive." Munrows voice seem to shake when he mentioned that Dufay died in 1474. One Pied Piper programme I was no...