Dido and Aeneas - Henry Purcell; Anne Sofie von Otter, Stephen Varcoe, Lynne Dawson, Nigel Rogers, The English Concert & Choir, Trevor Pinnock

Dido and Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell; Anne Sofie von Otter, Stephen Varcoe, Lynne Dawson, Nigel Rogers, The English Concert & Choir, Trevor Pinnock

Released 10 July 1989

baroque classical opera

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1
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
Henry Purcell
2:19
2
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Shake the cloud from off your brow" (Belinda) / "Banish sorrow, bannish care" (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
1:02
3
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment" (Dido) / "Grief increases by concealing..." (Belinda, Dido) / "When monarchs unite, how happy their state" (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
4:43
4
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Whence could so much virtue spring" (Dido, Belinda) / "Fear no danger to ensue" (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
Henry Purcell
3:32
5
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "See, your royal guest appears" (Belinda, Æneas, Dido) / "Cupid only throws the dirt" (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
1:26
6
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "If not for mine, for empire's sake" (Æneas) / "Pursue thy conquest, Love" (Belinda) / "To the hills and the vales, to the rocks and the mountains" (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
2:18
7
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. The Triumphing Dance
Henry Purcell
1:17
8
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. Prelude for the Witches: "Wayward sisters, you that fright" (Sorceress, First Witch) / "Harm's our delight and mischief all our skill" (Chorus) / "The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate" (Sorceress) / "Ho, ho, ho" (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
2:33
9
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Ruin'd ere the set of sun" (Witches, Sorceress) / "Ho, ho, ho" (Chorus) / "But ere we this perform" (Witches)
Henry Purcell
2:21
10
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "In our deep-vaulted cell the charm we'll prepare" (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
1:41
11
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. Echo Dance of Furies
Henry Purcell
0:56
12
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. Ritornelle / "Thanks to these lonesome vales" (Belinda, Chorus)
Henry Purcell
3:19
13
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Oft she visits this lone mountain" (Second woman) / Ritornelle
Henry Purcell
2:16
14
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Behold, upon my bending spear" (Æneas, Dido) / "Haste, haste to town" (Belinda, Chorus)
Henry Purcell
1:22
15
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command" (Spirit, Æneas)
Henry Purcell
2:46
16
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. Prelude "Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighting" (First sailor, Chorus)
Henry Purcell
1:32
17
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. The Sailors' Dance / "See the flags and streamers curling" (Sorceress, Witches)
Henry Purcell
1:42
18
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "Our next motion" (Sorceress) / "Destruction's our delight" (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
1:13
19
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. The Witches' Dance
Henry Purcell
1:12
20
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" (Dido, Belinda, Æneas) / "Great minds against themselves conspire" (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
5:01
21
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me" (Dido) / "When I am laid in earth" (Dido)
Henry Purcell
4:21
22
Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "With drooping wings ye Cupids come" (Chorus)
Henry Purcell
4:53