Description Henry Purcell: The Fairy Queen Reproduced from an early authoritative score, this version of Henry Purcell's The Fairy Queen includes O let me weep , a series of songs about the seasons, and Next winter comes slowly .

Suite Nach Henry Purcell, F. Str.Quart. Od. Str.Orch.. Par TAKACS JENO. 2Vl Va Vc (Strorch)/ Répertoire / Orchestre

Henry Purcell (1659-1695) held numerous appointments at the Royal court and Westminster Abbey and is considered by many to be the greatest ever English-born composer. His prolific work covered all fields: orchestral ecclesiastical operatic theatrical incidental and chamber music were all enriched by his output. Fantazias And In Nomines is a collection of his 15 Fantasies and 2 In Nomines Z. 731-747. Purcell is credited with popularising the hitherto arcane form of the Fantasy perhaps most famously in his Fanstasia Upon One Note where a middle C is sustained throughout in live performances this issometimes played by a volunteer from the audience!This full score edition has been edited by the renowned musicologist Robert Thurston Dart.

Poul Ruders' Prologue To Dido And Aenas by Henry Purcell (2011). Text by Nahum Tate. Commissioned by The Danish National Vocal Ensemble / DR Scored for Mixed Choir (SATB) String Quartet Percussion Theorbe and Harpsichord.Vocal score available: WH31460CParts available: WH31460A

Poul Ruders' Handel Variations for Orchestra (2009) -Ninety Symphonic Reflections on Eight Bars by Georg Friedrich Handel.Commissioned by and dedicated to the Aarhus Symphony Orchestra in celebration of their 75th anniversary 2010. Premiered by The Aarhus Symphony Orchestra conducted by Giancarlo Andretta at the Aarhus Concert Hall 14 January 2010. Programme noteThe short feisty Bourrée from Handel´s famous Water Music (First Suite in F major) has for some years been hovering at the back of my mind as possessing the perfectpotential for a series of variations. Not unlike the short 'morsel' by Henry Purcell (the witches Ho-ho-ho-chorus from the opera Dido and Aeneas) which kicks off the ten variations of my orchestral work Concerto in Pieces the music per se is not particularly interesting but it nevertheless grows on you and is difficult to get rid of. It is merely a handful of sequences (a technique much used in the Baroque era - a method in which the same motif is being shifted up and down in a specified order). Actually it is only the first eight bars of the Bourrée which I haul through the wringer.It would be obvious to assume that Handel Variations make up a sequel to Concerto in Pieces but in spite of the similarity in character between the two chosen themes the Handel Variations are far more symphonically coherent. There are no less than ninety (!) variations and each variation (they are relatively short ranging from four up to forty-something bars) runs seamlessly into the next creating a huge symphonic body of constantly changing colours. I set out with the original theme without interfering but the 'erosion' begins to gnaw away at the theme already from the first variation. Imagine a vast gallery of Handel portraits in which Georg Friedrich appears at first fully recognizable but then the 'disfiguration' sets in and

Vocal Score-Nyman's 2011 The Prologue to ‘Dido and Aeneas’ is a prologue to Henry Purcell's opera on a libretto by Nahum Tate. The libretto is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recountsthe love of Dido Queen of Carthage for the Trojan hero Aeneas and her despair when he abandons her. This edition of the work is scored for SATB with Piano reduction.