Dido and Aeneas

Tracklist

• 1
  Dido and Aeneas: Overture

  Henry Purcell
  2:13
• 2
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Shake the cloud from off your brow” (Belinda)

  Henry Purcell
  0:36
• 3
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Banish sorrow, banish care” (Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  0:31
• 4
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Ah! Belinda, I am pressed with torment” (Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  4:06
• 5
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Grief increases by concealing” (Belinda, Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  0:34
• 6
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “When monarchs unite, how happy their state” (Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  0:15
• 7
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Whence could so much virtue spring?” (Belinda, Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  1:41
• 8
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Fear no danger to ensue” (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  2:14
• 9
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “See, your royal guest appears” (Aeneas, Belinda, Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  0:47
• 10
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Cupid only throws the dart” (Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  0:35
• 11
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “If not for mine, for empire’s sake” (Aeneas, Belinda)

  Henry Purcell
  1:29
• 12
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “To the hills and the vales” (Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  1:03
• 13
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. The Triumphing Dance

  Henry Purcell
  1:26
• 14
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “Wayward sisters, you that fright” (Sorceress, First Witch) / “Harm’s our delight” (Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  2:11
• 15
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate” (Sorceress) / “Ho Ho Ho!” (Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  0:39
• 16
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “Ruined ere the set of sun?” (Sorceress, Two Witches) / “Ho Ho Ho!” (Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  1:09
• 17
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “But ere we this perform” (Two Witches)

  Henry Purcell
  1:12
• 18
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “In our deep vaulted cell” (Chorus in the Manner of an Echo)

  Henry Purcell
  1:28
• 19
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. Echo Dance of Furies

  Henry Purcell
  1:17
• 20
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. Ritornelle

  Henry Purcell
  0:43
• 21
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Thanks to these lonesome vales” (Belinda, Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  3:15
• 22
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Oft she visits this lone mountain” (Second Woman)

  Henry Purcell
  2:18
• 23
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Behold, upon my bending spear” (Aeneas, Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  0:29
• 24
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Haste, haste to town” (Belinda, Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  0:44
• 25
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command” (Aeneas, Spirit)

  Henry Purcell
  2:18
• 26
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “Come away, fellow sailors” (A Sailor, Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  1:35
• 27
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. The Sailor’s Dance

  Henry Purcell
  0:50
• 28
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “See the flags and streamers curling” (Sorceress, First and Second Witch)

  Henry Purcell
  1:02
• 29
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “Our next motion” (Sorceress)

  Henry Purcell
  0:42
• 30
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “Destruction’s our delight” (Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  0:32
• 31
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. The Witches’ Dance

  Henry Purcell
  1:22
• 32
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “Your counsel all is urged in vain” (Aeneas, Belinda, Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  3:27
• 33
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “Great minds against themselves conspire” (Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  0:50
• 34
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me” (Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  0:57
• 35
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “When I am laid in earth” (Dido)

  Henry Purcell
  3:50
• 36
  Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “With drooping wings” (Chorus)

  Henry Purcell
  2:16

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Release credits

• Camilla Tilling
  soprano vocals [2, 5, 7-9, 11, 21, 24, 32]
• Cécile De Boever
  soprano vocals [8, 22]
• David Daniels
  countertenor vocals [25]
• David Lowe
  chorus master [3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14-16, 18, 21, 24, 26, 30, 33, 36]
• Emmanuelle Haïm
  harpsichord, conductor
• European Voices
  choir vocals [3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14-16, 18, 21, 24, 26, 30, 33, 36]
• Felicity Palmer
  contralto vocals [14-16, 28-29]
• Ian Bostridge
  tenor vocals [9, 11, 23, 25, 32]
• Le Concert d’Astrée
  performing orchestra
• Paul Agnew
  tenor vocals [26]
• Simon Halsey
  chorus master [3, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14-16, 18, 21, 24, 26, 30, 33, 36]
• Susan Graham
  mezzo-soprano vocals [4-5, 7, 9, 23, 32, 34-35]

Issues

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  Dido and Aeneas

  CD
  November 2003
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  D
  Dido and Aeneas

  CD
  2003