England, My England - The Story of Henry Purcell

England, My England - The Story of Henry Purcell
by Tony Palmer

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Summary of England, My England - The Story of Henry Purcell

Charles: Simon Callow
Henry Purcell: Michael Ball
Mary: Rebecca Front
Nell: Lucy Speed
Pepys: John Shrapnel
Dryden: Robert Stephens
Bill: Bill Kenwright

Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists

Music performed by
Jennifer Smith, Lynn Dawson, Nancy Argenta

Susan Graham, Michael Chance, Paul Agnew
Stephen Varcoe, Peter Harvey, David Thomas

Tony Palmer directs this unique film drama about the great English composer Henry Purcell. Very little is known about his life, but the script, by the late John Osborne and Charles Wood, solves this problem by launching a group of actors in the 1960s on a voyage of discovery into late-17th century England, the extraordinary period in which Purcell lived. But it is Purcell s music which is the driving force of this dramatisation, with the stunning soundtrack conducted by John Eliot Gardiner.