var current='didolament'; function switchto(id){ document.getElementById(current).style.display='none'; document.getElementById(id).style.display='inline'; document.getElementById('a'+current).style.color='black'; document.getElementById('a'+id).style.color='#660000'; current=id; } If you haven't heard Purcell's music, you'll be surprised by quite how different it is from the "standard" classical music repertoire; it's made so by its blend of idioms from renaissance and earlier music with the emerging style of the baroque. To give you a taster, we've chosen a few clips from Youtube - our apologies for some of the video, but you can always just shut your eyes and listen to the music! Click on one of the titles, wait for a moment for the Youtube window to change to the right item, and then press the triangular "Play" button. Dido's Lament "When I am laid in earth" from the opera Dido and Aeneas, Z 626, sung by Emma Kirkby Chaconne in G minor, Z 730 Fantasy on a Ground in D Major, Z 731 Music for a whilesung by Philippe Jaroussky Anthem: Hear my prayersung by the Monteverdi Choir Funeral Sentences March, Z 860 (often entitled "Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary", and the piece used in Stanley Kubrick's movie "a Clockwork Orange")
