My - unfairly you may say - go first, Fary Queen "Hush No More". Chilling and thrilling, all in one!
can I have a first-to-mind, off-the-cuff verdict on your favourite: Purcell piece?
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The Fantasias for strings ...... oh just one? Then the Fantasia upon a ground, for 3 violins (or recorders) & continuo in D major /F major, Z. 731
Cheers me up every time!
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Tricky to be honest, as several spring to mind - slowly! But which was the first?
Dido's Lament.
Sailor's chorus from Dido and Aeneas
The "tune" from Britten's YPGTTO - from Abdelazar I think.
I don't want to hear DIdo lamenting everyday, so that gives a choice between Purcell's Rondeau and the chorus. Maybe joint first - equally cheerful.
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First to mind was the obvious one, Dido's Lament, surely one of the great tunes of the world.
It was closely followed by songs learnt when I was very young - Fairest Isle and Nymphs and Shepherds.
Funeral Music for Queen Mary.
And for fun, The Knotting Song and There's Not a Swain on the Plain, and Man is for the Woman Made (especially fun when performed by Pears and Britten).
Oh, and then there's If Music be the Food of Love and I Attempt from Love's Sickness to Fly.
One piece, did you say? Impossible.
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(Checking that Deller and Whitworth really did record together, I find that John died in July this year.)
.Last edited by jean; 25-09-13, 08:41.
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Definitely Nymphs and Shepherds. It was this that set me on the road to a musical career, when my primary school teacher (who had been on the famous Manchester Children's Choir recording) played it to us in 1956.
Against all advice, I reintroduced it to secondary school choirs in the 80's and 90's. They sang it like angels. Even the sceptical music-advisor-cum-ofsted-inspector had to concede that they enjoyed singing it.
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