Friday, February 14, 2014

Henry Purcell - Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary - March

I posted a version of this less than six months ago, but the link is already dead. Like a lot of people, I was first introduced to this piece of music through Wendy Carlos's version for the soundtrack of A Clockwork Orange. But the original version, for horns and drums, is full of a strange power, and it's clear why Stanley Kubrick was drawn to it.

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