Henry Purcell: A Biography. Many regard Purcell as the greatest English composer of all time. That is arguable; but considering his importance in the history of British music, it’s ironic that so ...

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Today, Donald Mcleod focusses on a single year in Purcell’s life, 1680, in which Purcell emerged as one of the greatest contrapuntists of his time. 1680 was a year of firsts for Purcell.

Henry Purcell senior died on 11th August 1664 and was buried in the East Cloister (no marker remains) and his brother Thomas, also a Gentleman of the Chapel Royal, was buried in the Cloisters on 2nd ...

Donald Macleod explores the music and life of Henry Purcell. Frustratingly little is known about the tragically abbreviated life of the composer who is arguably Britain’s greatest, Henry Purcell ...

If the English Restoration-era composer Henry Purcell were alive today, I think he'd enjoy sharing a title with John Mellencamp. Both musicians understood desire and pain, that the two are quite often ...

Henry Purcell has never been a popular composer, apart from a few hits, such as the trumpet voluntary (which isn’t by him anyway), a few songs such as Sound the Trumpet and the tune from the ...

Henry Purcell’s semi-opera “The Fairy Queen” (1692) is the kind of work that the esteemed early-music ensemble Les Arts Florissants is known for keeping alive in performance.

Henry Purcell: A Biography. Many regard Purcell as the greatest English composer of all time. That is arguable; but considering his importance in the history of British music, it’s ironic that so ...