The Early Music Legend

Pic Discogs If you like a combination of jazz, folk, baroque, gospel and blues - kind of medieval music with pop influences - injected into eight well-known numbers and performed by a group of superb musicians plyaing such ancient instruments as shawms, crumhorns and regals, then you MUST buy this album. The stars are David Munrow (also on descant recorder) and Chris Hogwood (harpsichord), two highly-respected interpreters of medieval sounds, but the effect achieved when they mix with three flugelhorns, two woodwinds, piano, organ and a driving rhythm section powered by two drummers is quite amazing. You will hardly recognise Laura Nyro's 'Eli's Coming', Lennon & McCartney's 'Michelle', or Blood Sweat And Tears 'Spinning Wheel'. 'Scarborough Fair' and 'This guy's in love with you' are also gems and the arrangements are so complex that it will take you a dozen plays to pick out everything that is going on. It is impossible t...

Pro Cantione Antiqua, Early Music Consort Of London* - Adieu Madame (Musik Am Englischen Hof, or Music of the English Court) Ref Discogs Deutsche Harmonia Mundi ‎– GD77178, BMG Classics ‎– GD77178 Series: Editio Classica – Format: 2 × CD Country: Germany Released: 1990 Genre: Classical Style: Renaissance Tracklist 1-1       The Agincourt Carol: Deo Gracias Anglia    2:30    1-2       Alas, Departing Is Ground Of Woe    1:46    1-3       Tappster, Dryngker    1:59    1-4       The Farther I Go, The More Behind    2:27    1-5       Goday, My Lord, Syr Christemasse    2:56    1-6       Hoyda, Jolly Rutterkin    3:51    1-7       An...

BOTH times David Munrow has arrived on my 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 piece, which we recorded at the suggestion of...

March 1, 2008 8:20pm--Meeting the virtuoso David Munrow Christopher Hogwood was for many years the resident keyboard player for the Early Music Consort of London under the director David Munrow, an unparalleled genius when it came to early wind instruments. I remember when the EMC came to perform at Royce Hall, UCLA many years ago and the place was packed to the rafters. Munrow was onstage with countertenor James Bowman, viol player Oliver Brookes, lutenist James Tyler, and Hogwood who, when he wasn't playing keyboard, played little drums and other percussion instruments. All these men were true stars of early music in the mid 1970s. When they came out on stage, Munrow had an array of forty or fifty wind instruments lying on the floor around his chair, and when a piece of music would end, he would just lean down and pick up another instrument and begin to play?a truly amazing artist.  The entire performance was utterly stunning. About ten days later I went to the Mark Taper ...

A French Collection Singers: Nigel Perrin, Alastair Hume, Alistair Thompson, Anthony Holt, Simon Carrington, Brian Kay. With the Early Music Consort of London directed by David Munrow Label: Moss Music Group Year: 1973 This item is no longer commercially available   Track Listing 1. La Guerre Clement Jannequin - Phillipe Verdolet 2. A Paris a trois filettes Jacotin 3. Il est bel et bon Pierre Passereau 4. Allons, allons gay Adrian Willaert 5. La, la, la, je ne l'ose dire Pierre Certon 6. Faulte d'argent Adrian Willaert 7. Je ne scay Antoine de Mornable 8. Je fille quant Dieu P. de Vuildre 9. Belle qui tient ma vie Thoinot Arbeau (Jehan Tabouret) 10. Une pace Claude Le Jeune 11. Un gentil amoureux Claude Le Jeune 12. Quatre petites prieres de Francois d'Assise Francis Poulenc 13. Chanson a boire Francis Poulenc 14. La belle si nous etions Francis Po...

        There are three  links to British Film Institute  material on David Murnow which may be of interest. I believe films/programmes can be downloaded for viewing if one is a member of BFI. I am not fully sure of the details............Anyway, the links.......... http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/769042     david munrow memorial programme http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/9453   ancestral voices programmes http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/series/4216     early musical instruments I also discovered entries relating to Music in the Round but not the Munrow entry. Robert Searle

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...