Remembering David Munrow

The great populariser of early music was a man of scarcely believable energy and productivityWhat's happened to early music? Now we've got conductors such as Nikolaus Harnoncourt and John Eliot Gardiner conducting the Berlin and Vienna philharmonics, it seems like these radical musicians, who shook up how we hear and how we play music from Monterverdi to Mozart, Bach to Beethoven, have now become part of the establishment, as if the revolution has been won: it's no longer about "early music" as ...

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