Henry Purcell: Fairest Isle (King Arthur), Anna Dennis with Voices of Music 4K UHD

The song “Fairest Isle,“ from Purcell’s semi-opera King Arthur (z628). Text by poet laureate John Dryden; music arranged and performed by the Early Music ensemble Voices of Music, with Anna Dennis, soprano. 4K ultra high definition video from the Great Poets concert, January, 2015 Purcell’s spare musical setting allows the text to be perfectly rendered as a dance with very simple melismas to highlight words and phrases. The text alternates lines of eight and seven syllables, with the first line of each pair