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England my England (CD Soundtrack) | Tony Palmer TPCD151

England my England (CD Soundtrack)

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Label: Tony Palmer

Cat No: TPCD151

Barcode: 0604388726325

Format: CD

Number of Discs: 1

Genre: Soundtrack

Release Date: 28th July 2023

Contents

Artists

Michael Ball
Simon Callow
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

Artists

Michael Ball
Simon Callow
English Baroque Soloists
Monteverdi Choir

Conductor

John Eliot Gardiner

About

Henry Purcell is a mystery. We know where he’s buried (next to Vaughan Williams in Westminster Abbey), but that’s about it.  We don’t even know who paid for his memorial stone in the Abbey.  No-one knows for sure where he was born or even precisely when he was born. We don’t know who his father was, nor the name of his mother. He lived exactly the same number of years as Mozart – only thirty-five – but we only know in detail what he did for three of those years. Page after page of the manuscripts of some of his master-works are completely blank. Purcell was – and is – a mystery, except that we know he wrote over a thousand works, at least one for every working week of his life.

This film was first shown in its entirety on Channel Four in the UK on Christmas Day 1995 to mark the 300th anniversary of Purcell’s death.

Stars Michael Ball as Purcell and Simon Callow as Charles II.

Running Time: 71 mins

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