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 lively characterizations.
Highlights include the lovely soprano air, O let me weep, a series of songs about the seasons, and the magnificent bass solo, Next winter comes slowly.
Reproduced from an early authoritative score, it is certain to be prized by musicians an...