Sparkling miniature opera, filled with intense drama and elegant song, lasts no more than an hour, yet unfolds a virtuoso range of expressive music, from a high-spirited sailors' dance to Dido's touching lament "When I am laid in earth." First pres... Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 - Vocal Score Purcell's 1680 masterpiece is presented here in digitally enhanced reprint of a vocal-piano edition prepared by the eminent English musicologist Wiliam Hayman Cummings (1831-1915) that was first issued by Novello in 1887. Manufacturer: Serenissima Music, Inc.
Based on Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, this work by one of England’s greatest composers features all the fine qualities for which Henry Purcell is celebrated—wonderful invention, keen dramatic instinct, and... Manufacturer: Dover Publications