Interwoven into the drama are compositions by Purcell including bawdy theatre ballads, joyful celebrations of love, slow airs ...

Who is England’s greatest composer? Britten and Elgar have their fans, but many say Vaughan Williams is greater than either, and still others would vote for one of our great Renaissance composers such ...

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 ...

England knew what it had lost when Henry Purcell died aged 36 years on 21 November 1695. His funeral at Westminster Abbey, where he worked for 16 years as organist, was on the grandest scale, a ...

Mostly our coverage in this column is a recommendation to try something new. Just occasionally, however, it has to be a dire warning to steer clear. From a group whose flair and inventiveness I have ...

Henry Purcell was the leading English composer of his time, even composing for the Royal family. He wrote Music for a While during the Baroque period as incidental music for the play Oedipus, written ...

Shawn Purcell doesn’t remember the precise moment he decided to become a professional musician. He does know that it was during spring 1989, his senior year at Baldwin High School. Purcell had been ...

The Southbank Centre is reopening the Purcell Room at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in September after 18 months. According to a statement, the 300-capacity venue aims to become “London’s number one ...

This week, the five episodes of Composer Of The Week set Henry Purcell’s work in the context of the turbulent times in which he lived. This was a period of intense political and social change, ...

O! fair Cederia, hide those eyes Henry Purcell, Composer Fred Jacobs, Theorbo Maarten Koningsberger, Baritone Oedipus, Movements: Music for a while (song) Maarten Koningsberger, Baritone Henry Purcell ...