Dido and Aeneas

Tracklist

• 1
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. Overture

  Henry Purcell
  1:57
• 2
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. “Shake the cloud from off your brow” (Belinda, Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  1:05
• 3
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. “Ah! Belinda, I am press’d with torment” (Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  3:50
• 4
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. “Grief increases by concealing” (Belinda, Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  0:36
• 5
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. Chorus. “When monarchs unite how happy their state”

  Henry Purcell
  0:15
• 6
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. “Whence could so much virtue spring?” (Dido, Belinda)

  Henry Purcell
  1:59
• 7
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. “Fear no danger to ensue” (Belinda, 2nd Woman, Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  1:40
• 8
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. “See, your Royal guest appears” (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  0:55
• 9
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. Chorus “Cupid only throws the dart”

  Henry Purcell
  0:32
• 10
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. “If not for mine, for Empire’s sake” (Aeneas, Belinda)

  Henry Purcell
  1:15
• 11
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. Guitars’ Chaconne

  Henry Purcell
  0:40
• 12
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. Chorus “To the hills and the vales”

  Henry Purcell
  1:04
• 13
  Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Triumphing Dance

  Henry Purcell
  1:27
• 14
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Prelude for the Witches. “Wayward sisters” (Sorceress, 1st Witch)

  Henry Purcell
  1:51
• 15
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Chorus “Harm’s our delight”

  Henry Purcell
  0:13
• 16
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II. “The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate” (Sorceress)

  Henry Purcell
  0:32
• 17
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Chorus “Ho ho ho, ho ho ho!”

  Henry Purcell
  0:11
• 18
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II. “Ruin’d ere the set of sun?” (1st, 2nd Witches, Sorceress)

  Henry Purcell
  1:07
• 19
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Chorus “Ho ho ho, ho ho ho!”

  Henry Purcell
  0:11
• 20
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Sailor's Dance

  Henry Purcell
  0:35
• 21
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II. “But, ere we this perform” (1st, 2nd Witches)

  Henry Purcell
  1:08
• 22
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Chorus “In our deep vaulted cell”

  Henry Purcell
  1:30
• 23
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Echo Dance of Furies

  Henry Purcell
  1:21
• 24
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. Ritornelle

  Henry Purcell
  0:46
• 25
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. Thanks to these lonesome vales” (Belinda, Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  3:08
• 26
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. “Oft she visits this lone mountain” (Guitar Dance, 2nd Woman)

  Henry Purcell
  2:28
• 27
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. "Behold, upon my bended spear” (Aeneas, Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  0:37
• 28
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. “Haste to town” (Belinda, Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  0:46
• 29
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. “Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove’s command” (Spirit, Aeneas)

  Henry Purcell
  2:53
• 30
  Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene II. Ritornelle

  Henry Purcell
  1:00
• 31
  Dido and Aeneas: Act III. “Come away, fellow sailors” (1st Sailor, Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  1:33
• 32
  Dido and Aeneas: Act III. The Sailor's Dance

  Henry Purcell
  0:47
• 33
  Dido and Aeneas: Act III. “See, The flags and streamers curling” (Sorceress, 1st, 2nd Witches)

  Henry Purcell
  1:03
• 34
  Dido and Aeneas: Act III. “Our next motion” (Sorceress)

  Henry Purcell
  0:41
• 35
  Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Chorus “Destruction’s our delight”

  Henry Purcell
  0:32
• 36
  Dido and Aeneas: Act III. The Witches’ Dance

  Henry Purcell
  1:15
• 37
  Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene II. “Your counsel all is urg’d in vain” (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)

  Henry Purcell
  4:01
• 38
  Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene II. “Great minds against themselves conspire”

  Henry Purcell
  0:55
• 39
  Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene II. “Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me” (Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  0:59
• 40
  Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene II. “When I am laid in earth” (Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  3:41
• 41
  Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene II. Chorus “With drooping wings ye Cupids come”

  Henry Purcell
  4:46

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Complete Chamber Music

Complete Chamber Music 2006

Baroque, Volume 12: Purcell: Music for Queen Mary / King Arthur / Didon & Enée / Ode à Sainte Cécile

Baroque, Volume 12: Purcell: Music for Queen Mary / King Arthur / Didon & Enée / Ode à Sainte Cécile 1995

O Solitude: Songs and Airs

O Solitude: Songs and Airs 1994

Dido & Aeneas

Dido & Aeneas 1994

King Arthur

King Arthur 1992

Release credits

• Chris Craker
  engineer, producer
• Keith Anderson
  liner notes
• Scholars Baroque Ensemble
  instrument [2], performing orchestra [1, 3-41]
• Simon Rhodes
  engineer

Issues

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  Dido and Aeneas

  CD
  May 1997