The Early Music Legend

The Art of the Recorder is regarded as something of a classic RS Source Ref http://www.discogs.com/David-Munrow-The-Art-Of-The-Recorder/master/779052 Tracklist The Middle Ages Anon., 13th C.: English Dance Anon., 14th C.: Saltarello The Renaissance Een Vrolic Vesen Voyant Souffrir Troys Jeunes Bourgeoises Allez Souspirs Amour Me Voyant Fantasy: The Leaves Be Green Five Dances: Sic Semper Soleo - Pavan - Galliard - The Choise - Muylinda The Early Baroque ...

  5 April 2015 From the section Entertainment & Arts Image caption Alan Davey took over as controller of BBC Radio 3 in January The new boss of BBC Radio 3 says he plans to revive the classic 1970s series Pied Piper, which introduced young listeners to the world of music. Presented by David Munrow, the fondly-remembered show covered everything from medieval music to prog rock. Speaking to the Sunday Times , Radio 3 controller Alan Davey said he was keen to commission a modern version. "Young people are ­growing up with an open mind about various kinds of quite ­complex music," he said. "It's not classical music, but it's not pop music, either. The step into classical music would be quite easy for them if they were to encounter it in the right way." Davey took over from Roger Wright in January, and has been listening to archive tapes of Pied Piper, which ran for 655 episodes betwee...

David John Munrow , in his brief career, was one of the most exciting and influential leaders of the British early music movement. After he completed his school education, he taught for a year in South America. He returned to England to attend Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he read for a degree in English from 1961 to 1964. He was an avid and talented flute player and while at Cambridge founded an organization to play early music. After he graduated, he studied 17th century music at Birmingham University. It was his exposure to South American indigenous music, with its strong use of wooden instruments of the flute family, that stimulated his interest in such instruments, including the recorder. At that time, interest in England in early music was growing. Munrow found himself in great demand as a recorder player. In 1967, he founded the Early Music Consort of London, with counter tenor James Bowman, violist Oliver Brookes, lutenist James Tyler, and harpsichor...

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  Object type  Data Source Royal Academy of Music instrument Acknowledgement Presented by Christopher Hogwood CBE HonRAM. Collection The Christopher Hogwood and David Munrow Collection Description Percussion instrument: Collection of strikers and beaters belonging to David Munrow. Comprising a matching pair of beechwood strikers, the remains of two drumsticks, a striker for a gong with a large fabric-covered head, a small turned striker of hardwood and a spatula-like striker (?). Classification woodwork Material brass Object type Type Length Width Height Diameter Unit (length) length of pair of strikers 250 millimetres gong striker 270 millimetres small hardwood striker 140 millimetres spatula-like striker 220 millimetres Accession No 2012.469 People Munrow, David (John) , performer Hogwood, Christopher CBE MA (Cantab) HonDMus HonRAM , performer Gallery

  [Translate] The following is from the excellent blog Semibrevity. However, the link here takes one to another musician other than David Munrow... http://www.semibrevity.com/2014/09/account-of-the-funeral-of-magician-frans-bruggen-in-the-old-church-in-amsterdam/ Guest blogger: Edward Breen (London-based musicologist, writer and lecturer whose 2014 PhD dissertation was entitled The Performance Practice of David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London . See here for more of his work.) David Munrow (1942-1976) was one of the most widely-known early music ‘personalities’ of the 1960s and 70s. He was a woodwind specialist and director of the Early Music Consort of London and also a prolific broadcaster. As a regular BBC presenter many knew him through his long-running radio series Pied Piper which was aimed at a younger audience but enjoyed by listeners of all ages. Over the course of five years and 655 programmes he discussed a huge range of music theme...

David Munrow had planned to do the classic Play of Daniel..but it was not be. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation , search The Play of Daniel , or Ludus Danielis , is either of two medieval Latin liturgical dramas based on the biblical Book of Daniel , one of which is accompanied by monophonic music. Two medieval plays of Daniel survive. The first is one of the plays in the Fleury Playbook , a 13th-century manuscript containing ten liturgical dramas; the text is by Hilarius , and no music accompanies it. The play itself dates from c. 1140. The second is a 13th-century drama with monophonic music, written by students at the school of Beauvais Cathedral , located in northern France. Both plays were completed about 1227 to 1234. [1] A large portion of the text is poetic rather than strictly liturgical in origin; it closely follows the narrative of the biblical story of Daniel at the court of Belshazzar . [2] The latter play was r...