Tracklist

  • 1
    Overture
    Henry Purcell
    2:46
  • 2
    Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:08
  • 3
    Ah ! Ah ! Ah ! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    4:06
  • 4
    Grief increase by concealing ... (Belinda, Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    0:25
  • 5
    When monarchs unite, how happy their state (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:27
  • 6
    Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido, Belinda)
    Henry Purcell
    2:02
  • 7
    Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, second woman, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:46
  • 8
    See, see, your royal guest appears (Belinda, Aeneas)
    Henry Purcell
    0:58
  • 9
    Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:44
  • 10
    If not or mine, for empire's sake (Aeneas)
    Henry Purcell
    0:31
  • 11
    Pursue thy conquest, love, her eyes (Belinda)
    Henry Purcell
    0:49
  • 12
    To the hills and the vales (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:26
  • 13
    The triumphing dance
    Henry Purcell
    1:16
  • 14
    Prelude for the witches (Sorceress)
    Henry Purcell
    1:16
  • 15
    Wayward sisters, you that fright (First witch, Sorceress)
    Henry Purcell
    1:18
  • 16
    Harm's your delight (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:21
  • 17
    The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress)
    Henry Purcell
    0:55
  • 18
    Ho ! Ho ! Ho ! (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:14
  • 19
    Ruin'd ere the set of sun? (First witch, Sorceress)
    Henry Purcell
    1:19
  • 20
    Ho ! Ho ! Ho ! (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:12
  • 21
    But ere we this perform (First and second sorceress)
    Henry Purcell
    1:26
  • 22
    In our deep vaulted cell (Chorus, in the manner of an echo)
    Henry Purcell
    1:00
  • 23
    Echo Dance of Furies
    Henry Purcell
    0:59
  • 24
    Ritornelle (Orchestra)
    Henry Purcell
    0:36
  • 25
    Thank to these lonesome vales (Belinda, chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:14
  • 26
    Oft she visits this lov'd mountain (Second woman)
    Henry Purcell
    2:10
  • 27
    Behold upon my bleeding spear (Aeneas, Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    0:35
  • 28
    Haste, haste to town (Belinda, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:56
  • 29
    Stay, Prince, and hear Jove's command (Spirit, Aeneas)
    Henry Purcell
    2:58
  • 30
    Praeludium for the sailors
    Henry Purcell
    0:40
  • 31
    Come away, felow sailors (First sailor, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:20
  • 32
    The Sailor's Dance
    Henry Purcell
    0:52
  • 33
    See, the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress, first witch)
    Henry Purcell
    0:59
  • 34
    Our next motion (Sorceress)
    Henry Purcell
    0:43
  • 35
    Destruction's our delight (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:37
  • 36
    The Witches' Dance
    Henry Purcell
    1:21
  • 37
    Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
    Henry Purcell
    4:21
  • 38
    Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:16
  • 39
    Thy hand, Belinda (Dido - recitative)
    Henry Purcell
    0:52
  • 40
    When I am laid in earth (Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    3:07
  • 41
    With drooping wings ye Cupids come (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    2:31

More by Purcell, Mary Thomas, Honor Sheppard, Helen Watts, Maurice Bevan, Ellen Dales, Robert Tear, Harold Lester, Oriana Concert Choir, Orchestra, Alfred Deller

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