Prize-winning Early Music ensemble The Duke’s Consort present a programme of Royal Odes by Henry Purcell. The first celebrating a wedding, the second the fear of a land without music on the death of Charles II. The programme also includes one of Purcell’s remarkable laments on the death of Queen Mary, and the odes feature some of his most intricate instrmental writing and renowned airs.
Henry Purcell (1659-1695):
From Hardy Climes and Dangerous Toils of War
Why are All the Muses Mute