The Early Music Legend

Blogger Ref   https://www.youtube.com/Searle8 The following is a pleasant, and wonderful presentation of some of the recorder work of David Munrow.... http://wwno.org/post/continuum-art-recorder-1

All Music Guide - James Manheim To listen to the 1970s recordings of David Munrow and his Early Music Consort of London is to realize how pivotal they were in transforming early music from an academic specialty into a living performance tradition. The performances are based on thorough academic research, but they are varied, vital, and enthusiastic, meant for concert audiences rather than academic meetings. And the Early Music Consort of London roster is packed with future stars. This two-CD set offers the complete contents of what was originally a double Munrow LP, The Art of the Recorder , plus the first half the Middle Ages half of another double LP, Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance . The Renaissance half is available as part of a different CD reissue, Music from the Court of Ferdinand and Isabella . Splitting up the Instruments album is a strange choice. Intended to accompany a book about the his...

An important figure in the recorder music world was Edgar Hunt. In Musical Times if I recall correctly he apparently lived near to David Munrow who was living in Chesham Bois (pronounced Boys!!!) which like Stoke Poges (where I used to live for many years along Park Road!) is a very posh "upper class" area. Anyway,Hunt remembered how Munrow dropped by to borrow a book from his home, and how he recalled seeing him on occassion at Amersham station presumably leaving for London.  Munrow with his wife only lived for a short period at Chesham Bois. Before that he lived for several years in middle class suburbia in St Albans. Here is some more info about Edgar Hunt who died sometime ago. "....Arnold Dolmetsch had brought the recorder into the light, after more than a century of oblivion in England, Edgar Hunt was the main protagonist of the school recorder movement and it was Hunt, in collaboration with the music retailers, Schott & Co, who made available the firs...