Music for a while

The Dutch classical radio show 'De Klassieken' was invited by countertenor Andreas Scholl and his fiancé pianist Tamar Halperin at their home in Germany. They performed 'Music for a while' by Henry Purcell.

Music for a While is a song for voice and basso continuo by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell. It is the second of four movements from his incidental music (Z 583) to Oedipus, a version of Sophocles' play by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee, published in 1679. The song was composed for a revival of the work in 1692.

Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile.
Wond'ring how your pains were eas'd
And disdaining to be pleas'd
Till Alecto free the dead
From their eternal bands,
Till the snakes drop from her head,
And the whip from out her hands.

When Orpheus Sang

Henry Purcell | "When Orpheus Sang" Lucile Richardot, mezzo-soprano et l'Ensemble Correspondances, direction : Sébastien Daucé. Extrait de la soirée 60 ans « Harmonia Mundi » enregistrée le 29 mai 2018 à 20h au studio 105 de la Maison de la radio.

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Joyce DiDonato (Sängerin des Jahres) & Il Pomo D'Oro, "When I am laid in earth" aus "Dido and Aeneas"

When I Am Laid In Earth

Jessye Norman - A Portrait - When I Am Laid In Earth (from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas)

When I am laid in earth.

Dame Janet Baker sings one of the most beautiful arias of all opera, from Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

Glyndebourne, 1966. Conductor: Charles Mackerras.

Three parts upon a ground, for the flutes

Chaconne "Three parts upon a ground, for the flutes" - Henry Purcell

avec Mélanie Flahaut, Jean-François Novelli et Jean Tubéry, flûtes à bec
François Joubert-Caillet, viole de gambe
Matthias Spaeter, théorbe
Philippe Grisvard, clavecin

Dido and Aeneas

L'Arpeggiata e Voces8 dirigidos por Christina Pluhar

Solistas
Mariana Flores [soprano]
Céline Scheen [soprano]
Marc Mauillon [barítono]

Voces8
Andrea Haines [soprano]
Emily Dickens [soprano]
Barnaby Smith [contratenor]
Christ Wardle [contratenor]
Oliver Vincent [tenor]
Samuel Dressel [tenor]
Paul Smith [barítono]
Dingle Yandell [baixo]

Gravado em 5 de Setembro de 2015 noTivoliVredenburg Utrecht como parte do Festival Oude Muziek Utrecht

Pina Bausch - Cafe Müller

Purcell

When I Am Laid In Earth.