{"product_id":"9780571309528","title":"Gabriel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis is noisily Protestant England - the England of William and Mary's Glorious Revolution at the end of a century of civil strife. This is London in the 1690s, the monster city tamed into awe by our only Orpheus: Henry Purcell.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMonarchs, princes, prostitutes, wigmakers, composers, tapsters, musicians, transvestites and watermen jostle for attention in the teeming, unruly world of late seventeenth-century London, where enthralling stories both real and imagined merge and intersect.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSamuel Adamson's \u003ci\u003eGabriel\u003c\/i\u003e premiered at Shakespeare's Globe, London, in July 2013 with Alison Balsom, one of the world's finest trumpeters, performing the music of Purcell and Handel. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eEvery day three trumpet calls from the theatres on the Bankside, then songs would float over the thatch and roll across the water and make my work sweet.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Faber and Faber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47106539913456,"sku":"9780571309528","price":10.49,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780571309528_p0.jpg?v=1763719210","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780571309528","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}