She considers the choices he makes in staging the productions and how he uses musical works to encourage social reflection on ethical issues in Mozart's Le nozze di figaro, Don Giovanni, and Cosi fan tutte; Olivier Messiaen's Saint Francoise d'Assise; Handel's Theodora; collaborations with John Adams and Alice Goodman on Nixon in China and The Death of Klinghoffer; collaborations with Adams on El Nino, Doctor Atomic, and The Gospel According to the Other Mary; collaborations with Kaija Saariaho on L'amour de loin, La passion de Simone, and Only the Sound Remains;
Henry Purcell's The Indian Queen; and Bach's passions.
The concert's key piece is Benjamin Britten's "Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra," a work based on a theme by
Henry Purcell that, with the help of live narration and video enhancements, highlights symphonic instruments and sections within each variation.
1695:
Henry Purcell, English composer, died of tuberculosis, aged 36.
Blow's moving tribute to his friend and pupil An Ode on the Death of Mr
Henry Purcell is included on this disc in a beautiful performance with the vocal parts shared by tenors Samuel Boden and Thomas Walker.
The opera was composed by
Henry Purcell more than 300 years ago in 1688 and its production in Stirling was a major effort, with help provided by the Snowdon Orchestra, musicians from the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and lighting from the Stirling Amateur Dramatic Society.
Plymouth, NH, March 21, 2018 --(PR.com)-- PSU Chamber Singers present
Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" on Tuesday, April 3, 2018 at 7pm in Smith Recital Hall of the Silver Center for the Arts at Plymouth State University in Plymouth, NH.
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Henry Purcell's contributions to the service repertory, while not nearly as extensive as those of his contemporary Blow, still position him as an important contributor to the genre, and they are brought together in the volume under review here, part of the new and improved Purcell Society Edition, which moved to Stainer & Bell in 2007, after more than a century's association with Novello.
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Kevin Mallon and his Toronto-based Aradia Ensemble continue to unearth little-known music from the Baroque era with this most enjoyable second volume of theatre music by
Henry Purcell. The texture of the ensemble, which features just eight strings plus harpsichord, oboe, recorder and percussion (tambourine is prevalent), is airy and thus allows for superb transparency at every turn.
Henry Purcell's first opera, "Dido and Aeneas," will be presented at 7 p.m.