The Early Music Consort Of London

Perhaps no other group than the Early Music Consort of London has given as much impetus to the "early music revival" of the late twentieth century. David Munrow founded the group in 1967, and every aspect of its sound and meteoric rise bears the stamp of his personality. Munrow came to early music through a chance encounter with a crumhorn hanging on a friend's wall in Cambridge in 1961. He subsequently embarked on a passionate program of research and self study on the crumhorn, the shawm, the recorder, and other instruments throughout the medieval and early modern spectrum. H...