Henry Purcell | Music for a While

“Music for a While” by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell. Samuel Yawson(Countertenor) Papa Andoh(Continuo) Henry Purcell(1659-1695) is one of the greatest English composers and his legacy was a uniquely ‘English form of Baroque Music’ Text "Music for a while Shall all your cares beguile. Wond&how your pains were eas'd And disdaining to be pleas'd Till Alecto free the dead From their eternal bands, Till the snakes drop from her head, And the whip from out her hands."