ABSTRACT
The Anthology was not an attempt to get all the best records, but a lot of these were selected because they were odd-an important version of the song, or one which came from a particular place. . . . Then there were other things put in simply because they were good performances, like ‘Brilliancy Medley’ occurs to me. You couldn’t get a representative cross-section of music into such a small number of records. Instead, they were selected to be ones that would be popular among musicologists, or possible with people who would want to sing them and maybe improve the version. They were basically picked out from an epistemological, musicological selection of reasons.1
