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Composer of the Week

Music: Classical

An informative guide to composers' lives and their music.

An informative and accessible guide to composers' lives and their music.

Composer of the Week: Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Composer of the Week: Henry Purcell (1659-1695): Episode 4: We'll Try a Thousand Charming Ways to Win Ye

Henry Purcell (1659-1695)

Episode 4

Episode 4: We'll Try a Thousand Charming Ways to Win Ye

We'll Try a Thousand Charming Ways to Win Ye

BBC Radio 3 - Composer of the Week, Henry Purcell (1659-1695), We'll Try a Thousand Charming Ways to Win Ye

Donald Macleod on Purcell's music for an adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Donald Macleod on Purcell's music for a 1692 adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Fairy Queen.

Donald Macleod explores Purcell's music for a spectacular 1692 adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Fairy Queen. Later that year the London stage faced disasters involving its principal performers - the worst being the murder of the actor William Mountfort, by an army officer, over the star actress Anne Bracegirdle. This was a bad omen for the United Company, which thanks to financial mismanagement was on the brink of collapse.

Live music and the arts: broadcasts more live music than any other radio network. Classical music is its core. Genres include world and new music, jazz, speech and drama.

Donald Macleod explores Henry Purcell's music for the theatre

Donald Macleod explores Henry Purcell's music for the theatre, from songs he wrote for plays in the 1680s to the semi-opera The Indian Queen, which he did not live to complete

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