Nightingale from Ancestral Voices David Munrow

David Munrow performs an early 18th century tune from the 'The Bird Fancyers Delight' on a sopranino recorder. This is a short clip from the BBC2 TV 5-part series 'Ancestral Voices', shown in 1976, shortly before Munrow took his own life.

Munrow makes a case for the missing link between folk music and pre-classical music. This is the Flutes episode.

In it, Munrow propounded the theory that early music must have had the passion and vibrancy of folk music, played today by indigenous peoples. It was recorded at a time Munrow was manically overworked and the strain sometimes shows.

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