The Early Music Legend

Sunday, November 24, 2013 Toys and Techniques blog                                                                                     ....... The above show was called Early Musical Instruments and aired in 1976. There were 6 episodes, each involving Munrow and a group of Englishmen making a racket with a certain family of instruments - reed instruments, strummed ones, percussion, etc. Some of them are positively evil looking, such as the gemshorn, a recorder made seemingly out of satan's antlers, or various guitar-like monsters with about twenty strings and nightmarish dragon-like tuning heads. The series was filmed at the beautiful and eerie Ordsall Hall in...

David Munrow / Early Music Consort Of London, The - The Art Of David Munrow  Images Release History Edit Images   More Images                                                                                                                Label: EMI ‎– SLS 5136, His Master's Voice ‎– SLS 5136 Fo...

The following comes from the Gramophone magazine. It is an article by Christopher Bishop who was Munrows producer. August 12th, I942—May I5th, 1976 There must be many of David Munrow's friends who, like me, find it hard to accept the fact that he is dead. His continued presence on television and on records makes it even more difficult to realize fully that so vital a person has gone. He leaves behind the very happiest memories, both musical and personal. David first bounced into my life in 1970, when we did a BBC programme together of madrigals accompanied by instruments. Basil Lam suggested that we should use David's recorder consort, and when I heard them play I realised that I had never heard recorders play in tune before. After the programme, I drove David from Broadcasting House to St John's Wood station, and on that short journey he told me about his work. That was typical of him—he never wasted a minute. Next morning he flew into my office with a tape of the...

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