The Early Music Legend

Professor Jonathan Freeman-Attwood , Principal (Blog)- Posted on 12.05.2016 RAM I’ve just read an illuminating blog about David Munrow by Margaret Jones at Cambridge University, where a new display has opened to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Munrow’s untimely death on 15th May 1976. The Academy’s Library is fortunate to house the David Munrow Archive – a performance-centred archive, primarily of sheet music from performances given by Munrow’s Early Music Consort of London. I remember being part of the ‘purchasing team’ from the Academy when this went to auction in the early 1990s. Jeremy Summerly and I couldn’t believe our eyes – and, actually, Iaan Wilson (one of Munrow’s playing colleagues) was there too, picking out his parts from seminal recordings and shows. The archive also contains scores and arrangements for television and film productions, and some radio scripts. You can browse an online catalogue of the materials in the National Archives . The Academy’s Museum col...

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Blogger Ref  http://www.youtube.com/Searle8 The following comes from a Blog  See link for details  https://musicb3.wordpress.com/about/ Posted on 6 May 2016 by mj263 David Munrow’s first professional concert took place in 1967, his last in May 1976. During those short eight and a half years, his star blazed across the musical sky. He probably did more than any other single person to popularise early music and to move period performance into the mainstream. May 15th is the fortieth anniversary of David’s shockingly untimely death which shook the musical world. His work on the popular radio series  Pied piper   and his work on television endeared him to many who (formerly) knew little about music. David’s engaging manner captivated his listeners, and made them feel that he was a friend. One letter of condolence expresses this very clearly: “…I am only one of countless music lovers who have enormously enjoy...

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=...