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 ...

For 200 years, Henry Purcell was the towering figure in English music, a composer of sublime melodies and grand musical spectaculars much-favoured by English royalty. Not bad for a man who never ...

Lucie Skeaping traces the schoolboy years of one of England's greatest composers, Henry Purcell, looking at how he came under the influence of several different composers and church musicians, who ...

Students from the Mannes School of Music and the School of Drama presented selections from Henry Purcell’s baroque semi-opera Fairy Queen, loosely based on William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s ...

Henry Purcell was born in London in 1659 and probably never left the city. He spent most of his career working as organist at Westminster Abbey. Yet in his 36 years, he made a huge contribution to ...

(Classical Detours meanders through stylistic byways, exploring new recordings from the fringes of classical music.) What is refreshing about Wallumrød's approach — and that of her collaborator, ...

Sarasota Opera’s production of “Dido and Aeneas,” which opened Sunday, is one to relish as it lingers in your memory. Baroque opera in live performance is rare these days, and one presented with such ...

The English Concert live from the Great Hall of St. Bartholomew’s Hospital. The English Concert/Youtube While live classical music in the US remains stubbornly moribund, an impressive number of groups ...

Henry Purcell was the most important English composer of the era, described as the "Orpheus Britannicus" for his ability to combine Baroque counterpoint with dramatic settings of English words. He ...

Henry Purcell was a renowned English composer during the Baroque era, celebrated for his significant contributions to the development of English music. His compositions, which include sacred music, ...