Tracklist

  • 1
    Overture
    Henry Purcell
    3:07
  • 2
    Act I: Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:10
  • 3
    Act I: Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    3:26
  • 4
    Act I: Grief increases by concealing (Belinda, Dido, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:57
  • 5
    Act I: Whence could so much virtue spring (Dido, Belinda)
    Henry Purcell
    2:12
  • 6
    Act I: Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, 2nd Woman and Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:40
  • 7
    Act I: See, your Royal guest appears (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    1:17
  • 8
    Act I: Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:35
  • 9
    Act I: If not for mine, for Empire's sake (Aeneas)
    Henry Purcell
    0:24
  • 10
    Act I: Pursue thy conquest, Love (Belinda)
    Henry Purcell
    0:49
  • 11
    Act I: To the hills and the vales (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:15
  • 12
    Act I: The Triumphing Dance
    Henry Purcell
    1:20
  • 13
    Act II Scene 1: Prelude for the Witches
    Henry Purcell
    1:27
  • 14
    Act II Scene 1: Wayward sisters (Sorceress, 1st Witch)
    Henry Purcell
    1:35
  • 15
    Act II Scene 1: Harm's our delight (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:19
  • 16
    Act II Scene 1: The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:48
  • 17
    Act II Scene 1: Ruin'd ere the set of sun (1st and 2nd Witches, Sorceress, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:30
  • 18
    Act II Scene 1: But, ere we this perform (1st and 2nd Witches)
    Henry Purcell
    1:15
  • 19
    Act II Scene 1: In our deep vaulted cell (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:17
  • 20
    Act II Scene 1: Echo Dance of Furies
    Henry Purcell
    1:01
  • 21
    Act II Scene 2: Ritornelle
    Henry Purcell
    0:29
  • 22
    Act II Scene 2: Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:44
  • 23
    Act II Scene 2: Oft she visits this lone mountain (2nd Woman)
    Henry Purcell
    2:06
  • 24
    Act II Scene 2: Behold, upon my bended spear (Aeneas, Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    0:36
  • 25
    Act II Scene 2: Haste to town (Belinda, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:47
  • 26
    Act II Scene 2: Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove's command (Spirit, Aeneas)
    Henry Purcell
    2:43
  • 27
    Act II Scene 2: Then since our Charm's have sped (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:10
  • 28
    Act III Scene 1: Prelude - Come away, fellow sailors (Sailor, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:45
  • 29
    Act III Scene 1: The Sailor's Dance
    Henry Purcell
    0:43
  • 30
    Act III Scene 1: See, the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress, 1st and 2nd Witches)
    Henry Purcell
    0:56
  • 31
    Act III Scene 1: Our next motion (Sorceress)
    Henry Purcell
    0:41
  • 32
    Act III Scene 1: Destruction's our delight (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:35
  • 33
    Act III Scene 1: The Witches' Dance
    Henry Purcell
    1:32
  • 34
    Act III Scene 2: Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
    Henry Purcell
    4:41
  • 35
    Act III Scene 2: Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:13
  • 36
    Act III Scene 2: Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me (Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    1:07
  • 37
    Act III Scene 2: When I am laid in earth (Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    3:59
  • 38
    Act III Scene 2: With drooping wings ye cupids come (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    4:36

More by Purcell, Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra, Geraint Jones

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