For most of history, the territory of what people called music didn’t extend very far. It consisted, by and large, of the sounds and styles they grew up with. Anything else was a barbaric noise. Now, ...

9 March 1971: Meirion Bowen on the scholar, virtuosic musician and crumhorn whizzkid at the forefront of the period-instrument movement, who died tragically young 40 years ago I recall first seeing ...

Popularising Early Music in the 1960s made David Munrow a controversial figure, but why?

The great populariser of early music was a man of scarcely believable energy and productivity What's happened to early music? Now we've got conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and John Eliot ...

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On this Continuum you'll hear a special program devoted to the art of the recorder in early music presented by the legendary short-lived David Munrow and the Early Music Consort of London. In the ...

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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 ...

Following the release in September of double album 'Cantus, Descant', as well as an impending live album, Sarah Davachi shares a selection of formative records from her teenage years and studies The ...