Purcell

What Dominique Pagani says

Dominique Pagani mentions Henry Purcell on a few occasions, always briefly. In a session devoted to Nerval's Angélique, he mentions Dido and Aeneas, in which Dido dies facing the sea after Aeneas has fled1. In the Musicosophie series, he cites the ode Come Ye Sons of Art, in which the lute is "touched", to point out the precision of instrumental vocabulary2. He links the rediscovery of Purcell to that of the countertenor repertoire3. In the session on interpretation, he remarks that Purcell's fugues are hard to tell apart from Corelli's4. Finally, in a talk on Bartók, he gives him as an example of a Baroque music shared by several countries5. These last two remarks point the same way: he presents Purcell less as a specifically national figure than as a representative of a Baroque language shared across borders.

1. 1#4.4 Angélique (de Nerval)15 Jan 2018 · 1:01:37
2. 2Musicosophie 6. La Variation Jazz... de Beethoven15 Dec 2020 · 22:53
3. 3Musicosophie 8. Bonheur et malheur en musique11 Jan 2021 · 1:40:41
4. 4Musicosophie 17. L'interprétation25 Mar 2021 · 37:17
5. 5BARTÓK - LE SON INOUÏ • Pagani Parle Musique13 Jul 2022 · 6:35

Summary produced automatically from 5 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.