10 September 1659: Birth of Henry Purcell, Englands best-known - TopicsExpress



          

10 September 1659: Birth of Henry Purcell, Englands best-known contribution to baroque music. Ive got a bit of his stuff here and there, and one or two collections. Its unmistakably baroque, but also unmistakably different from, for example, the contemporaneous North German tradition expressed by Buxtehude, or the Italians or French, although there was a good deal of communication among them -- amazing, in fact, given the hazards of travel back then. Even back in the late 1500s, Sweelinck in Amsterdam had students from all over the place. This recording is by the Empire Brass and Michael Murray on organ, recorded (if memory serves, I have this on vinyl) at the Church of Our Lady of Sorrows in Toronto. youtube/watch?v=ZHUItgnEM58
Posted on: Wed, 10 Sep 2014 23:13:50 +0000

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