Dido and Aeneas / Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day - Henry Purcell; Tatiana Troyanos, Barry McDaniel, Simon Woolf, Paul Esswood, Alexander Young, Michael Rippon, John Shirley‐Quirk, Sir Charles Mackerras

Dido and Aeneas / Ode on St. Cecilia’s Day

Compilation by Henry Purcell; Tatiana Troyanos, Barry McDaniel, Simon Woolf, Paul Esswood, Alexander Young, Michael Rippon, John Shirley‐Quirk, Sir Charles Mackerras

Released 1 February 2005

Tracklist

CD 1: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626
1
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
Henry Purcell
2:38
2
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. "Shake the cloud from off your brow"
Henry Purcell
1:13
3
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. "Ah! Belinda" / "Grief increases" / "When monarchs unite"
Henry Purcell
5:25
4
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. "Whence could so much virtue spring?" - "Fear no danger"
Henry Purcell
3:50
5
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. "See, your royal guest appears" / "Cupid only throws…"
Henry Purcell
1:28
6
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. "If not for mine, for empire's sake" … "To the hills and the vales"
Henry Purcell
3:04
7
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 1. The Triumphing Dance
Henry Purcell
1:02
8
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Prelude for…" / "Harms our…" / "The Queen" / "Ho, ho, ho"
Henry Purcell
2:38
9
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Ruin'd ere the set of sun" … "But ere we this perform"
Henry Purcell
2:43
10
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "In our deep vaulted cell"
Henry Purcell
1:40
11
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. Echo Dance of Furies
Henry Purcell
1:14
12
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales" - Gitter Ground a Dance
Henry Purcell
3:23
13
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Oft she visits"
Henry Purcell
2:45
14
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Behold, upon my bending spear" / "Haste, haste to town"
Henry Purcell
1:21
15
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Stay, Prince"
Henry Purcell
3:01
16
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 2. "Then since our charms have sped" - A Dance - The Groves Dance
Henry Purcell
1:47
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Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"
Henry Purcell
1:36
18
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. The Sailors' Dance - "See the flags and streamers curling"
Henry Purcell
1:53
19
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. "Our next motion" - "Destruction's our delight"
Henry Purcell
1:20
20
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. The Witches' Dance
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1:23
21
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" - "Great minds against themselves conspire"
Henry Purcell
5:21
22
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. "Thy hand, Belinda" … "When I am laid in earth"
Henry Purcell
5:47
23
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act 3. "With drooping wings…" - Cupids’ Dance
Henry Purcell
6:01
CD 2: Hail, bright Cecilia!, Z. 328 Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
1
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Symphony
Henry Purcell
11:48
2
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Hail, bright Cecilia!
Henry Purcell
0:28
3
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Hail, bright Cecilia!
Henry Purcell
3:26
4
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Hark, hark, each tree its silence breaks
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4:54
5
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Tis Nature's voice
Henry Purcell
3:43
6
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Soul of the world
Henry Purcell
2:56
7
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Thou tun'st this world below, the spheres above
Henry Purcell
3:37
8
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: With that sublime celestial lay
Henry Purcell
2:51
9
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Wondrous machine!
Henry Purcell
3:21
10
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: The airy violin
Henry Purcell
1:37
11
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: In vain the am'rous flute and soft guitar
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5:38
12
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: The fife, and all the harmony of war
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3:05
13
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Let these amongst themselves contest
Henry Purcell
3:15
14
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Hail, bright Cecilia!
Henry Purcell
2:08
15
Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: With rapture of delight
Henry Purcell
0:56
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Ode for St. Cecilia’s Day, Z. 328: Hail, bright Cecilia!
Henry Purcell
1:18