Tom Service looks at Purcell’s legacy, and how his music has continued to influence British composers until the present day with contributions from Peter Maxwell Davies, Harrison Birtwistle, Michael ...

Henry Purcell has written 2 shows including Don Quixote (Composer), Colin and His Wife (Composer).

That we’ve reached the 350th year since the birth of Henry Purcell provided a sufficient and welcome excuse in this household to displace the perennial juggernauts of Christmas music—Bach and his ...

Take note when music of Henry Purcell is being performed. He thrived at the end of the 17th century and is widely regarded as the greatest English composer until the end of the 19th century. Yet he ...

Who is going to prevail between Arnold Bax and Henry Purcell? While Purcell isn’t a household name, there isn’t a mezzo-soprano alive who’s escaped her undergraduate studies without singing When I Am ...

As an opera composer, Henry Purcell is best known for a single piece: the drama Dido and Aeneas, which dates from around the 1680s. Strictly speaking, it's the only opera Purcell ever wrote. Many ...

In order to see this content you need to have both Javascript enabled and Flash installed. Visit BBC Webwise for full instructions Charles Hazlewood outlines the plans for Purcell broadcasts during ...

The cycles of a good ground bass can often feel like the cycles of grief, or even the physical experience of an uncomfortable spiral. If the English Restoration-era composer Henry Purcell were alive ...