Many are surprised to learn that the improvisational element intrinsic to jazz performance had a precursor in the music of the Baroque period, and most especially through the 17th-century compositions ...

The superb German countertenor puts ravishing spins on music by Purcell, including an achingly beautiful account of Dido's Lament. Hearing a high male voice sing these works is a refreshing experience ...

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 ...

Alex Cann and company, who’ve presented full-on homages to such greats as Handel and the team of W.S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur ...

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 ...

Early-music aficionados in the Bay Area have such a bounty spread before us that it’s easy to become complacent about the state of the field. But of course all those stylistically attuned vocalists ...

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio -- All too often, Henry Purcell is "the man who wasn't there." There's always plenty of acknowledgement of his importance to English music, and testimony to his supreme artistry, ...

Nor was much made of his bitter enemy, the Saxon Oswald, nor the fair, blind Emmeline, nor even the great magician, Merlin, who, in Dryden’s original waves his wand in the final scene and summons up ...

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 ...