Dido and Aeneas and Music for Plays & Masques
Album by Purcell; Nancy Maultsby, Susannah Waters, Russell Braun, Laura Tucker, Richard Clement, Sharon Baker, Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
Released 29 October 1996
Tracklist
- 1Dido and Aeneas: OvertureHenry Purcell1:50
- 2Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Shake the cloud from off your brow” / “Banish sorrow”Henry Purcell1:04
- 3Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment”Henry Purcell3:34
- 4Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Grief increases by concealing” / “When monarchs unite”Henry Purcell0:47
- 5Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Whence could so much virtue spring”Henry Purcell1:45
- 6Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Fear no danger to ensue”Henry Purcell1:30
- 7Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “See your royal guest appears” / “Cupid only throws the dart”Henry Purcell1:26
- 8Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “If not for mine, for empire’s sake”Henry Purcell1:12
- 9Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “To the hills and the vales” / The Triumphing DanceHenry Purcell2:07
- 10Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: Prelude for the Witches / “Wayward sisters”Henry Purcell2:37
- 11Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “Ruin’d ere the set of sun?”Henry Purcell1:10
- 12Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “But ere we this perform”Henry Purcell1:12
- 13Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “In our deep vaulted cell” / Echo Dance of the FuriesHenry Purcell2:21
- 14Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: Ritornelle / “Thanks to these lonesome vales”Henry Purcell3:01
- 15Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: “Oft she visits this lone mountain”Henry Purcell1:33
- 16Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: “Behold upon my bending spear” / “Haste, haste to town”Henry Purcell1:19
- 17Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: “Stay, Prince, and hear”Henry Purcell2:23
- 18Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: RitornelleHenry Purcell0:39
- 19Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: Prelude / “Come away fellow sailors” / The Sailors’ DanceHenry Purcell2:16
- 20Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: “See the flags and streamers curling”Henry Purcell0:56
- 21Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: “Our next motion” / “Destruction’s our delight”Henry Purcell1:09
- 22Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: The Witches’ DanceHenry Purcell1:09
- 23Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “Your counsel all is urged in vain”Henry Purcell3:20
- 24Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “But death, alas, I cannot shun” / “Great minds against themselves conspire”Henry Purcell1:18
- 25Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “Thy hand Belinda” / “When I am laid in earth”Henry Purcell4:09
- 26Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “With drooping wings ye Cupids come”Henry Purcell4:28
- 27Abdelazer: OvertureHenry Purcell3:01
- 28Abdelazer: RoundeauHenry Purcell1:21
- 29Abdelazer: AirHenry Purcell1:20
- 30The Gordian Knot Unty’d: MinuetHenry Purcell1:32
- 31The Gordian Knot Unty’d: AirHenry Purcell1:13
- 32Timon of Athens: Curtain Tune on a GroundHenry Purcell1:59
- 33The Fairy Queen: RondeauHenry Purcell1:28
- 34The Fairy Queen: HornpipeHenry Purcell0:58
- 35The Fairy Queen: OvertureHenry Purcell1:27
- 36The Fairy Queen: Dance for the FairiesHenry Purcell1:05
- 37The Fairy Queen: ChaconneHenry Purcell2:37
- 38The Married Beau: Hornpipe on a GroundHenry Purcell1:29
More by Purcell, Nancy Maultsby, Susannah Waters, Russell Braun, Laura Tucker, Richard Clement, Sharon Baker, Boston Baroque, Martin Pearlman
Release credits
- choir vocals [2, 4, 6-7, 9-11, 13-14, 16, 19, 21, 24, 26], performing orchestra
- mezzo-soprano vocals [11-12, 17, 20]
- mezzo-soprano vocals [10-11, 20-21]
- soprano vocals [10-12, 20]
- conductor
- mezzo-soprano vocals [3-5, 7, 16, 23-25]
- tenor vocals [19]
- baritone vocals [7-8, 16-17, 23]
- soprano vocals [6, 15]
- soprano vocals [2, 4-8, 14, 16, 23]
Issues
D29 October 1996