Sunday, January 8, 2023

Perfect Pitch - Tim Bouverie # 1 - Henry Purcell - Dido & Aeneas

 


A new year, a new task. And Classically related, something of a first on this blog, though not entirely I imagine. Tim Bouvier's exhaustingly titled Perfect Pitch, 100 pieces of Classical Music to bring, joy, tears, solace, empathy inspiration (& everything in between). A personal present to myself. With a chapter from Bouvier for each selection, to explain their value.

We start at the end of the Seventeenth Century with Henry Purcell, and Dido & Aeneas, according to Bouvier, the greatest opera in the English language.



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