Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695) - Music for a While - Philippe Jaroussky, countertenor.
Here we have French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky and European early music group L’arpeggiata in an arrangement by theorbist Christina Pluhar of Purcell’s sensationally beautiful “Music for a While“.
I have always felt that the jazz and Baroque idioms work well together, especially with the fertile harmonic opportunities offered by a ground bass, as here. Jacques Loussier, for example, fused Bach with jazz brilliantly, in a way which broadened Bach’s audience considerably.
The Music and Composer
Henry Purcell 1659 – 1695 was an English composer. Although he incorporated Italian and French stylistic elements, Purcell’s was a uniquely English form of Baroque music. He is generally considered to be one of the greatest English composers; no later native-born English composer approached his fame until Edward Elgar, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, William Walton and Benjamin Britten in the 20th century.
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