{"product_id":"philippa-hyde_musical-london-from-purcell-to-handel_2015_disco-virgin-music-group","title":"Musical London : from Purcell to Handel","description":"Here is a true avalanche of world premiere recordings, proof that there are still unsuspected beauties hidden under the dust of libraries. Music in England from 1680 to 1750 naturally evolves around the two great poles that were Purcell and Handel, who together would almost overshadow all the others. This is infinitely unfortunate, as it is often better to listen to a good Pepusch, a good Haym, a good Croft, or a good Weldon than to a lukewarm Handel, as he wrote quite a number of such examples, it must be said. It is especially the Italian idiom, newly arrived in England around 1700, that influenced the new writing, not only from the many Italians settled in the country but also from English (or Germanic in the case of Handel) composers, charmed by the brilliance of this music that definitively erases the leaden years of Cromwell and the artistic desert he left for several decades after the Restoration of 1660. The English want to have fun, as evidenced by the chronicles of a Pepys, and to open themselves to the sunny lightness of the Continent. And yet, the English style shines through in every \"Italian\" measure, proof of a perfectly successful osmosis.©Abeille Musique 2011","brand":"Philippa Hyde","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57752921768280,"sku":null,"price":23485259.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0898\/4943\/0360\/files\/0095115077627.jpg?v=1784621699","url":"https:\/\/vinyles.com\/en-us\/products\/philippa-hyde_musical-london-from-purcell-to-handel_2015_disco-virgin-music-group","provider":"Vinyles.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}