The Early Music Legend

A Treasury of Early Music  http://www.youtube.com/Searle8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6xaQRQpVic&t=18s Thanks to Stefano Dal Cortivo  for the above link The following is in Italian as an English version is unavailable at present Published on 12 Feb 2017 Musica alle corti d’Inghilterra dai Plantageneti agli Stuart. Il programma, come dice il titolo, ha una sua precisa qualificazione. Si tratta di musiche fra il XII e il XVII secolo, eseguite in Inghilterra alle Corti di Riccardo I, Enrico V, Enrico VIII, Elisabetta I, Giacomo I e Carlo I. Ricorrono così, accanto ai nomi degli strumenti antichi - quali il liuto, la viola da gamba, la tromba medievale, il cromorno, la ribeca, la citola, la dulciana, il cembalo, ecc. - i nomi delle celebri dinastie inglesi quali Tudor, Stuart, Plantageneti e Lancaster. E tra gli autori spiccano proprio alcuni Sovrani che scrissero musiche eseguite poi nelle feste a Corte. Infatti di Carlo I Stuart avremo l'aria «Guarda...

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...