Playing on my Apple Music when I woke this morning (4/27): the trio and chorus “They shall be as happy as they’re fair” from Act V of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Z. 629, with its forward-driving syncopations accompanying the repeated “happy, happy”. A wild wedding song to start the day: They shall be as happy, happy, as they’re fair, Love shall fill all the places of care; And ev’ry time the Sun shall display his rising light, It shall be to them a new Wedding day, And when he sets a new Nuptial night. Every day a new festive wedding day, every night a new conjugal wedding night; let’s dance! I was profoundly happy. [I had hoped to insert here a link to a suitably brilliant performance of the trio and chorus, specifically the 1995 Warner Classics / Teldec recording of the Arnold Schoenberg Choir and the Concentus Musicus Wien, conducted by Nikolaus Harnoncourt — with soprano Barbara Bonney, soprano Elisabeth von Magnus, and bass Robert Holl. But my attempts to capture the link…
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