Dido and Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell & Lorraine Hunt Lieberson & Lisa Saffer & Paul Elliott & Michael Dean & Choir of Clare College, Cambridge & Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Nicholas McGegan

Dido and Aeneas is a chamber opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed around 1689. The work is a concise example of Baroque opera, combining expressive arias, choral writing, a basso continuo and instrumental colour to fuse English theatrical traditions with continental influences and serving as a key example of Restoration-era English opera.
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  1. 1.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
    1:51
  2. 2.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Shake the cloud from off your brow” (Belinda) – “Banish sorrow, banish care” (Chorus)
    0:57
  3. 3.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment” (Dido)
    3:26
  4. 4.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Grief increases by concealing” (Belinda, Dido, Second Woman) - “When monarchs unite” (Chorus)
    2:30
  5. 5.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Fear no danger to ensue” (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
    1:32
  6. 6.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “See, your royal guest appears” (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) – “Cupid only throws the dart” (Chorus)
    1:39
  7. 7.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Pursue thy conquest, love” (Belinda)
    0:45
  8. 8.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “To the hills and the vales” (Chorus) – The Triumphing Dance
    2:14
  9. 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)
    2:19
  10. 10.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I. “Ruin’d ere the set of sun?” (Two Witches, Sorceress)
    0:58
  11. 11.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I. “But ere we this perform” (Two Witches)
    1:09
  12. 12.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I. “In our deep vaulted cell” (Chorus) – Echo Dance of Furies
    2:00
  13. 13.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. Ritornelle
    0:37
  14. 14.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Thanks to these lonesome vales” (Belinda, Chorus)
    2:25
  15. 15.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Oft she visits this lov’d mountain” (Second Woman)
    2:26
  16. 16.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Behold, upon my bending spear” (Aeneas, Dido)
    0:33
  17. 17.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Haste, haste to town” (Belinda, Chorus)
    0:42
  18. 18.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command” (Spirit, Aeneas)
    2:34
  19. 19.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. Ritornelle
    0:48
  20. 20.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. Prelude – “Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing” (First Sailor, Chorus)
    1:28
  21. 21.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. The Sailors’ Dance
    0:45
  22. 22.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. “See, the flags and streamers curling” (Sorceress, Witches)
    1:02
  23. 23.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. “Our next motion” (Sorceress) – “Destruction’s our delight” (Chorus)
    1:03
  24. 24.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. The Witches’ Dance
    1:09
  25. 25.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “Your counsel all is urg’d in vain” (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
    3:50
  26. 26.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “Great minds against themselves conspire” (Chorus)
    0:43
  27. 27.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me” (Dido) – “When I am laid in earth” (Dido)
    3:59
  28. 28.
    Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “With drooping wings ye cupids come” (Chorus)
    4:32
  29. 29.
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: I. Overture
    2:19
  30. 30.
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: II. Air
    0:42
  31. 31.
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: III. Rondeau minuet
    1:09
  32. 32.
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: IV. Air
    1:07
  33. 33.
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: V. Jig
    0:40
  34. 34.
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: VI. Chaconne
    1:53
  35. 35.
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: VII. Air
    0:41
  36. 36.
    Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: VIII. Minuet
    1:30

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