The sixty-ninth classical recording: #59 Henry Purcell - The Fairy Queen
With today's classical peace we're looking at a Shakespeare play turned into a musical by Henry Purcell. It's fairly early in the list and shows how much movement classical music goes through in these early stages - these aren't the monk's chants we got 30 earlier. Instead, this full-on opera has a lot of musical interludes. It has decent music - not quite the otherworldly charm the title implies, but it sounds decent regardless, with some decent songs but mostly as its own orchestral piece that would, I assume, normally accompany the spoken word. I don't think this is one where I felt I really missed out by seeing the performance - it all stood out well enough on its own.