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Hello all,
I love baroque music. I have a Spotify account and found this marvelous work. The Fairy Queen – Henry Purcell (1659-1695).
http://open.spotify.com/album/510GCytYUI7mQssVgITt7Y
http://open.spotify.com/album/5OOTgtwg4Napd50Axg1kzoThere are many more, but I’ll take those two for now.
Also I found on youtube where you can see his work:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VzvqsrUJris
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EXL5J7Lv_aEWho knows, if Purcell fell into a “Fairy Ring” and was sent to the Fairyland, spent time there, he met Oberon and Titania and when he returned to our world wrote this wonderful piece of art in his honor. 😀
[adrotate group="5"]The Fairy Queen is actually based on a very famous epic poem by Spenser, “The Faerie Queene”. The music was probably based on it in relation to A Midsummer Night’s Dream — Both were hugely popular in that period. Spenser was the inspiration of Shakespeare, Milton, Tolkien, Lewis… Almost every great poet ever to write in the English language, honestly. He based the epic on Queen Elizabeth, and Purcell’s Fairy Queen is supposed to be an interpretation of a Midsummer Night’s Dream in the spirit of Spenser’s Faerie Queene, making Oberon and Titania based off of William and Mary.
Sorry. >.< I'm an English major on a Renaissance Literature track. I can't resist. =P
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