Dido & Aeneas / When Night Her Purple Veil Had Softly Spread

Album by Henry Purcell & Benjamin Britten

Dido and Aeneas is an opera by English composer Henry Purcell, composed around 1689. The work is in the Baroque style with expressive vocal writing, recurring ground bass figures and concise instrumental sections, and it occupies an important place in Purcell's operatic output and in Restoration-era English theatre.
OperaBaroqueClassical

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  1. 1.
    Dido and Aeneas: Overture
    2:27
  2. 2.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I, Scene I: The Palace
    14:59
  3. 3.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I, Scene II: The Cave
    8:33
  4. 4.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II: The Grove
    11:12
  5. 5.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Supplement
    3:28
  6. 6.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III: The Ships
    20:42
  7. 7.
    When Night Her Purple Veil Had Softly Spread
    15:15

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