#HenryPurcell's
#TheFairyQueen will be broadcast from the Utrecht Early Music Festival @WQXR at 1 p.m. EDT with William Christie leading Les Arts Florissants in #HenryPurcell's brilliant #opera — a #Baroque musical adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night’s Dream":

www.wqxr.org/story/henry-...
June 29, 2024 at 4:32 PM
🎶#OTD in #Music #History 22 November 1683, #HenryPurcell’s “Welcome to all the pleasures, Z. 339” had its first performance in London. Commissioned by "The Musical Society", #Purcell wrote it in honour of #SaintCecilia, the patron saint of music.

▶️ youtu.be/EFE9UpRaGkM?si…
November 22, 2025 at 2:01 AM
🎶#OTD in #Music #History 22 November 1683, #HenryPurcell’s “Welcome to all the pleasures, Z. 339” had its first performance in London. Commissioned by "The Musical Society," #Purcell wrote it in honour of #SaintCecilia, the patron saint of music.

▶️ youtu.be/EFE9UpRaGkM?si…
November 22, 2024 at 1:03 AM
SOMMARMUSIK, at #RosedalePresbyterianChurch TORONTO special music by soloists dir #ChristopherDawes continues thru Aug w progressive (a bit every Sunday) perf of #HenryPurcell's Ode: Hail Bright Cecilia. Sunday 10:30am
www.rosedalepresbyterianchurch.ca/hailbrightce...
portrait by JohnClosterman
August 2, 2025 at 5:45 PM
#AlfredDeller was born #OnThisDay in 1912, one of the leading figures in re-establishing the #countertenor in performances of Renaissance & Baroque #music; this is a hauntingly beautiful recording #HenryPurcell's "Music for a While":
www.youtube.com/watch?v=trOX...
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alfred_...
May 31, 2025 at 3:27 PM