TICKETS: $35. Visit www.rockportmusic.org or call 978-546-7391. Henry Purcell was the first Mozart. The first Mendelssohn. The first Schubert. Purcell, like these other prodigious composers who also ...

Printed score and keyboard manuscript by Purcell, who died in 1695, unearthed in Worcestershire and Norfolk He was the leading English composer of the 17th century, writing masterpieces such as Dido ...

Unlike The Bard, however, Purcell is supposed to have caught the cold after returning home late from the theatre one night to ...

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

Henry Purcell is known for his songs, hymns, anthems, odes, operas — in short, for his vocal music. Which is all the more reason to welcome an excellent forthcoming CD of his keyboard music. Just to ...

Get your Henry Purcell on with Alex Cann and his Bach Elgar Choir. Cann and company, who’ve presented full-on homages to such greats as Handel and the team of W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan, are ...

Conductor Charles Hazlewood explores the development of British music through the lives, times and music of Henry Purcell, George Frideric Handel, Joseph Haydn and Felix Mendelssohn in a major new ...

(The) Mock Marriage, Movements: 'Twas within a furlong (song) (L') Arpeggiata Henry Purcell, Composer Christina Pluhar, Director Oedipus, Movements: Music for a while (song) Henry Purcell, Composer (L ...

Henry Purcell was the most important English composer of the era, described as the "Orpheus Britannicus" for his ability to combine Baroque counterpoint with dramatic settings of English words. He ...