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| Signed | Indie |
| Genre | Folk Song to Baroque. |
| Location | London, United Kingdom |
| Members | Thomas Tallis, William Byrd, John Dowland, Henry Purcell, Alfred Deller, Robin Blaze. |
| Influences | Earlier Musick |
| Sounds Like | The 16th and 17th Century Musick. |
| Biography | Henry Purcell is commonly thought of as Britain’s greatest composer, certainly between the Elizabethans and Elgar, though this reputation does not necessarily mean that his music is well known, even among musicians. There were Purcell concerts all over the world during the tercentenary celebrations in 1995, and virtually every note of his music was available on CD at that time. But interest seems to have declined since 1995; certainly, many of the recordings made then are no longer available. In Britain we still tend to hear the same few works—Dido and Aeneas, the odes Come ye sons of art and Welcome to all the pleasures, the anthems Rejoice in the Lord alway and O sing unto the Lord, and a few late songs—while most of his output stays on the shelves. This is particularly unfortunate since Purcell is one of the few seventeenth-century composers whose output is on a consistently high level. Once he had found his compositional voice as a teenager he hardly seemed capable of writing a boring or lacklustre piece. |
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| HENRY PURCELL |
| HENRY PURCELL One reason why Purcell’s music was neglected in the past was that it was performed in an inappropriate style. Even the best seventeenth-century music can b... read more |
| WILLIAM BYRD |
| Early Byrd and the English Reformation So, one might ask why Byrd composed such a great quantity of Latin polyphony that had no “official” place in the churches an... read more |
| JOHN DOWLAND |
| John Dowland represents one of the few examples of a great composer whose present day reputation is based on a relatively restricted range of works. His output is founded almost... read more |
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