Early Music in the '50s

[doversoul1]

Saturday
Beverley at 25
Catherine Bott presents highlights from a concert performed at Beverley Minster as part of this year's 25th Beverley Early Music Festival. Grand Desir perform a selection of their own arrangements of medieval songs and dances including repertoire by Dufay and Binchois.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jg75p

Sunday
Early Music in the '50s
When Queen Elizabeth came to the throne in 1952 it sparked a wave of creative interest in the first Queen Elizabeth and her times. Catherine Bott looks at how this coincided with the work of the early music movement in this country. In particular she looks at the work of some of the great early music pioneers of the time such as Thurston Dart, Robert Donnington and Walter Bergmann

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01jg87d

It’s not very often that Britten gets mentioned on the EMS.

[french frank]

Thanks, ds - in fact, today's the day, isn't it?

It's getting uncomfortably close to the time when I first started taking an interest in what wasn't then called Early Music: the medieval composers and performers like Thurston Dart (smittims used always to refer to him by a different name - was it Fred or Bill Dart?).

[pilamenon]

The Grand Désir concert was superb - especially the instrumental pieces. I must try to catch it again.