Zardoz

Music from the opening titles of Zardoz, which is scored to the second movement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7, the Allegretto, arranged by David Munrow of the Early Music Consort Of London. Zardoz was Munrow's second film credit - he also contributed some Early Music to compliment Peter Maxwell Davies' score for The Devils. This extraordinary vocal recording of the Allegretto does not appear to have had a release beyond the minute or so heard in John Boorman's film, which is a terrible shame, I would love to hear the famous crescendo in this form. David Munrow is in my thoughts again after reading about him last night in Rob Young's Electric Eden book. By all accounts he was one of the great pioneers of Early Music and his manic energy levels resulted in over 50 albums before his untimely death by suicide in 1976. This is a body of work worth investigating further I think...