Some Memories of Pied Piper, the Radio Series...
As a teenager I was fascinated by history, and art. My first introduction to early music proper ofcourse 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 occassion 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 Munrows own record album of The Art of Courtly Love album notably dealing with Machaut, and Dufay. It was clear that he used his own printed "notes" from this recording for this specific broadcast. I seem to recall too a broadcast 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 progra...