MUSINGS ON MUSIC - 10/11/20
As usual, if you would like to listen to this blog rather than read it, please press HERE I was going to write a little pre-amble to all this, but felt it would spoil the flow. So it’s been stuck at the end as a… post-ramble… I suppose. Anyway, to business:- Music has always played a big part in my life, both as performer and listener - more the latter as I get older. My very earliest memories, going back to when I was very young indeed, were of Danny Kaye singing 'Tubby the Tuba', played from a '45' (remember them?!) on my parents' portable record player. This was quickly followed by a Vivaldi concerto for two trumpets, which was generally played as 'getting-up' music of a Sunday morning… In the late '60s my brother gave me a wonderful LP: Tanzmusik der Paetorius-zeit - an Archiv production - which opened my eyes (and ears) to the joys of early music. At around the same time we had a ground-breaking recording of the Monteverdi Vespers of 1610, wh