Tracklist

  • 1
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
    Henry Purcell
    1:51
  • 2
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Shake the cloud from off your brow” (Belinda) – “Banish sorrow, banish care” (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:57
  • 3
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment” (Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    3:26
  • 4
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Grief increases by concealing” (Belinda, Dido, Second Woman) - “When monarchs unite” (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    2:30
  • 5
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Fear no danger to ensue” (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:32
  • 6
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “See, your royal guest appears” (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) – “Cupid only throws the dart” (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:39
  • 7
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Pursue thy conquest, love” (Belinda)
    Henry Purcell
    0:45
  • 8
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “To the hills and the vales” (Chorus) – The Triumphing Dance
    Henry Purcell
    2:14
  • 9
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I. Prelude for the Witches – “Wayward sisters” (Sorceress, First Witch) – “Harm’s our delight” (Witches chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    2:19
  • 10
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I. “Ruin’d ere the set of sun?” (Two Witches, Sorceress)
    Henry Purcell
    0:58
  • 11
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I. “But ere we this perform” (Two Witches)
    Henry Purcell
    1:09
  • 12
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I. “In our deep vaulted cell” (Chorus) – Echo Dance of Furies
    Henry Purcell
    2:00
  • 13
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. Ritornelle
    Henry Purcell
    0:37
  • 14
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Thanks to these lonesome vales” (Belinda, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    2:25
  • 15
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Oft she visits this lov’d mountain” (Second Woman)
    Henry Purcell
    2:26
  • 16
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Behold, upon my bending spear” (Aeneas, Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    0:33
  • 17
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Haste, haste to town” (Belinda, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:42
  • 18
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command” (Spirit, Aeneas)
    Henry Purcell
    2:34
  • 19
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. Ritornelle
    Henry Purcell
    0:48
  • 20
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. Prelude – “Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing” (First Sailor, Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:28
  • 21
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. The Sailors’ Dance
    Henry Purcell
    0:45
  • 22
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. “See, the flags and streamers curling” (Sorceress, Witches)
    Henry Purcell
    1:02
  • 23
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. “Our next motion” (Sorceress) – “Destruction’s our delight” (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    1:03
  • 24
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. The Witches’ Dance
    Henry Purcell
    1:09
  • 25
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “Your counsel all is urg’d in vain” (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
    Henry Purcell
    3:50
  • 26
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “Great minds against themselves conspire” (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    0:43
  • 27
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me” (Dido) – “When I am laid in earth” (Dido)
    Henry Purcell
    3:59
  • 28
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “With drooping wings ye cupids come” (Chorus)
    Henry Purcell
    4:32
  • 29
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: I. Overture
    Henry Purcell
    2:19
  • 30
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: II. Air
    Henry Purcell
    0:42
  • 31
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: III. Rondeau minuet
    Henry Purcell
    1:09
  • 32
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: IV. Air
    Henry Purcell
    1:07
  • 33
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: V. Jig
    Henry Purcell
    0:40
  • 34
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: VI. Chaconne
    Henry Purcell
    1:53
  • 35
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: VII. Air
    Henry Purcell
    0:41
  • 36
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: VIII. Minuet
    Henry Purcell
    1:30

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