The Portrait of Henry Purcell’s aria WHEN I AM LAID IN EARTH
Read interesting facts and listen to great YouTube videos of Purcell’s famous aria “WHEN I AM LAID IN EARTH”.
Archive for month: January, 2021
Online opera guide & synopsis to Purcell’s DIDO AND AENEAS
Dido and Aeneas is the greatest work of the “Orpheus britannicus” Henry Purcell, who shows himself with this work to be a master of the baroque form. His lamenti are unsurpassed, his tone painting imaginative, his dissonances bold and with “When I am laid in earth” he wrote one of the most beautiful arias of the whole baroque age.
Online opera guide & synopsis to Wagner’s TRISTAN UND ISOLDE
Wagner’s ambition was to compose the greatest love music that had ever been heard. To do this, he had to invent a new musical language for “Tristan and Isolde. He lived up to this claim and composed a work that, with its sensual, stirring chromaticism, was to exert a tremendous influence on the classical music world for the next almost 100 years.