Purcell: Hail, Bright Cecilia, Come, ye Sons of Art, Queen Mary, Funeral Music

The pioneering conductor John Eliot Gardiner, one of the leading lights of the Baroque revival, brings together superlative soloists and the excellent Monteverdi Choir in one of the very first historically-informed Purcell recordings ever released. These two albums received a multitude of prizes when first released, and are also in Erato bestsellers range (more than 500K copies sold to date of Music for the funeral of Queen Mary; 250K of Hail! Bright Cecilia).