The Early Music Legend

Blogger Ref  http://www.youtube.com/Searle8 Yesterday, marked the passing of David Munrow. A brief programme on him, and most notably some of his music was heard on BBC Radio Three. It can be found at the end of a programme on Young Musicians http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07b26qg PS Just by chance I heard the above...as it is not billed as a "separate" entry on the BBC Radio website.

Blogger Ref  http://www.youtube.com/Searle8     The Composer Who's Written Music for Every Shakespeare Play John Robert Brown/University of Birmingham (David Munrow worked for a time for GuyWoolfenden, and the latter "appears" in the Memorial programme of the former /RS) Guy Woolfenden Guy Woolfenden (1937-2016) was born in Ipswich in Suffolk. Appropriately, he names Benjamin Britten as his favourite composer. However, when Woolfenden started playing the horn as a fourteen-year-old, he was living in South Croydon. "There was a Croydon Symphony Orchestra," he says, recalling that the Croydon orchestra had two conductors whom he rates as extraordinary. "One was Colin Davis. The other was Norman Del Mar, who was later head of conducting at the Guildhall. He taught using the old, best, way, which is where you have two pianos. You seat four of your conductors, two on each piano. You make them score read, while another of their colleagues co...

A Treasury of Early Music  Blogger Ref  http://www.youtube.com/Searle8   From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia   Jump to: navigation , search David Munrow The Art of the Netherlands 3LP box cover 1976 The Art of the Netherlands was an influential collection of recordings made by the Early Music Consort of London under the direction of David Munrow and issued in 1976 as a three-disk set. [1] The recording (SLS 5049) was split into 'Volumes' as follows: Volume I: Secular Songs - 14 songs/ chansons Volume II: Instrumental Music - 13 pieces & Mass Movements - 5 pieces Volume III: Motets - 9 pieces The full track list of this and subsequent reissues can be found here: [1] It has since been reissued twice, with some cuts, on CD. The first Reflexe CD release cut tracks through all 3 LPs. The second Virgin Veritas CD release was more systematic in cutting only the instrumental music from Side A of LP2. See also [ edit ] The ...

Blogger Ref  http://www.youtube.com/Searle8 Before the BBC Genome Project which gives comprehensive listings of programme both auditory, and visual I used a far less adequate approach to get a listing of Pied Piper Programme. The following is reproduced again from one of my posts in the David Munrow Forum run by David Griffiths.   Hunting Down the Pied Piper Series......           « on: December 19, 2011, 04:22:37 PM » I have been examining the online British Museum archive collection. It appears the Pied Piper Series maybe complete BUT you have to put a search word such as David Munrow Pied Piper Mexico, David Munrow Pied Piper Edgar Elgar, David Munrow Pied Piper Dance...In other words, you cannot simply put in Pied Piper David Munrow, and come up with the whole series with their subtitles! This makes things a bit complicated! http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?mode=Basic&vid=...

  Student thesis : Doctoral Thesis › Doctor of Philosophy/Blogger Ref  http://www.youtube.Searle8 Edward George Breen Music This thesis focuses on the musical contribution of David Munrow and his Early Music Consort of London (EMC) to the so-called early music revival of the 1960s and 1970s. By exploring the notion of shared cultural space in performances of medieval music by leading ensembles of the time, this thesis seeks to isolate aspects of performance practice unique to the EMC. An assessment of literary sources documenting the early music revival reveals clear nodes of discussion around Munrow’s methods of presenting early music in concert performance which are frequently classified as ‘showmanship’ with a focus on more scholarly performance practice decisions only evident in the post-Munrow period. Close readings of these sources are undertaken which are, in turn, weighed against Munrow’s early biography to map out the web of influences contr...