Sjaella - Music For A While (Henry Purcell)

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Sjaella performs 'Music For A While' by Henry Purcell in Philippus Church Leipzig.

Arrangement by Susanne Blache
Video by Tom Streller
Audio recording/mastering by Michael Silberhorn

Lyrics by John Dryden and Nathaniel Lee:
Music for a while
Shall all your cares beguile.
Wond'ring 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.