CD FUNERAL MUSIC FOR QUEEN M PURCELL

Purcell; Funeral Music For Queen Mary

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Henry Purcell's career combined positions at the Chapel Royal and Westminster Abbey and as composer of music for the church and for the people. He is considered by some as the greatest English composer of all time a position not challenged until the music of Edward Elgar some two centuries later.Despite the abundance of younger stars none of them yet match Chance's intelligent delivery and supreme ability to get inside the English language': so said The Guardian of Michael Chance, one of the world's most celebrated countertenors and a leading exponent of historically informed performances of the Baroque repertoire.The Choir of Clare College, founded in 1866, continues the venerable tradition of choral singing from Cambridge. As well as performing its liturgical function at daily services at Clare College Chapel, the choir has given premieres of works by composers from Herbert Howells to John Rutter, who was the college's first music director.Purcell's life was relatively short he died at 36. However, the range of music produced during his career (he is thought to have started composing aged nine) is remarkable. This collection spans both his sacred and secular writing, from his music for the funeral of Queen Mary (which was also performed at his funeral service in Westminster Abbey) and the Te Deum and Jubilate Deo written towards the end of his life, to songs and works written for the stage including music for the play Dioclesian.

Data premiery: 2014-10-06

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Waga: 0.181 gram

Wysokość: 0.6 cm

Szerokość: 5 cm

Długość: 5.6 cm