musical ensemble specialized in music of the Middle Ages, Renaissance, and Baroque
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2023-07-23 08:07:00
No one thought there was a market for the Beatles
[…] presented a successful TV series, and wrote music for several major feature films including Ken Russell's The Devils - together with Peter Maxwell Davies - and Henry VIII & his Six Wives directed by Waris Hussein. David Munrow's interest in early music started when he taught in Peru before going up to Cambridge. He combined reading English at Pembroke College with independent studies of Renaissance and medieval music, and went on to form his famous Early Music Consort of London. Under his leadership the Early Music Consort became best-selling recording artists, and David Munrow’s records were considered so important that copies of them were sent to Saturn on board two NASA spacecraft in 1976. Today David Munrow is remembered by the records he made for EMI that started in 1971 with the LP Two Renaissance Dance Bands. He was brought to EMI by their double Grammy winning recording producer […]
2022-03-09 10:08:09
Bleckell Murry Neet; The Cumbrian Duo - Ed Heslam, Jean Altshuler; Willowhayne Reviewed by Robert Hugill on 8 March 2022 Star rating: 3.0 (★★★) Traditional tunes from Cumbria in engaging modern versions for guitar and harpBleckell Murry Neet on Willowhayne Records features a selection of Cumbrian tunes performed by the Cumbrian Duo (Ed Heslam, guitar, Jean Altshuler, harp) in arrangements by Ed Heslam. Heslam, a composer and guitarist, has been both a member of an Early Music Consort and a folk dance band. He moved from making arrangements of traditional folk melodies, to researching old melodies and songs from unpublished material including 18th and 19th century fiddle books. These are not attempts to recreate the original context (the Cumbrian fiddle tradition died out at the beginning of the 20th century), but to develop the melodies into new music, set in a new context. As such, Heslam's […]
2021-10-17 15:04:00
Virtue signalling does not sell concert tickets
This article is unique among the 4554 posts uploaded to On An Overgrown Path since August 2004. Because it agrees with a Slipped Disc post. Last week Norman uploaded a Slipped Disc reader's contribution headlined 'Why I won't be going back to concerts'. The thrust of the contribution was not the reader's fear of COVID, but how for him concerts had become "just a bit too often ordinary... a bit of a ritual". Which resonates with my recent post 'Where has all the musical adventurousness gone?' lamenting the demise of musicians who is transcend conventions and pursue their own unique musical visions. David Munrow is talking to Peter Maxwell Davies in that photo. In the early 1970s David Munrow’s Pied Piper radio programme was broadcast four times a week for five years and introduced a new audience to early music. He presented a successful TV series, […]
2020-03-25 09:40:00
Early musician who could have become a great conductor
[…] presented a successful TV series, and wrote music for several major feature films including Ken Russell's The Devils - together with Peter Maxwell Davies - and Henry VIII & his Six Wives directed by Waris Hussein. David Munrow's interest in early music started when he taught in Peru before going up to Cambridge. He combined reading English at Pembroke College with independent studies of Renaissance and medieval music, and went on to form his famous Early Music Consort of London. Under his leadership the Early Music Consort became best-selling recording artists, and David Munrow’s records were considered so important that copies of them were sent to Saturn on board two NASA spacecraft in 1976.Today David Munrow is remembered by the records he made for EMI that started in 1971 with the LP Two Renaissance Dance Bands. He was brought to EMI by their double Grammy winning recording producer Christopher Bishop […]
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