Dido and Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell & Mary Thomas & Honor Sheppard & Helen Watts & Maurice Bevan & Ellen Dales & Robert Tear & Harold Lester & Oriana Concert Choir & Oriana Concert Orchestra & Alfred Deller

Dido and Aeneas is an opera by the English composer Henry Purcell, composed and first performed around 1688–1689. It exemplifies English Baroque opera with expressive vocal writing, choral passages and continuo-based instrumental textures that blend recitative and aria forms, and it occupies an important place in Purcell's stage output and the development of English opera.

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  1. 1.
    Overture
    2:46
  2. 2.
    Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda, Chorus)
    1:08
  3. 3.
    Ah ! Ah ! Ah ! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido)
    4:06
  4. 4.
    Grief increase by concealing ... (Belinda, Dido)
    0:25
  5. 5.
    When monarchs unite, how happy their state (Chorus)
    0:27
  6. 6.
    Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido, Belinda)
    2:02
  7. 7.
    Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, second woman, Chorus)
    1:46
  8. 8.
    See, see, your royal guest appears (Belinda, Aeneas)
    0:58
  9. 9.
    Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus)
    0:44
  10. 10.
    If not or mine, for empire's sake (Aeneas)
    0:31
  11. 11.
    Pursue thy conquest, love, her eyes (Belinda)
    0:49
  12. 12.
    To the hills and the vales (Chorus)
    1:26
  13. 13.
    The triumphing dance
    1:16
  14. 14.
    Prelude for the witches (Sorceress)
    1:16
  15. 15.
    Wayward sisters, you that fright (First witch, Sorceress)
    1:18
  16. 16.
    Harm's your delight (Chorus)
    0:21
  17. 17.
    The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress)
    0:55
  18. 18.
    Ho ! Ho ! Ho ! (Chorus)
    0:14
  19. 19.
    Ruin'd ere the set of sun? (First witch, Sorceress)
    1:19
  20. 20.
    Ho ! Ho ! Ho ! (Chorus)
    0:12
  21. 21.
    But ere we this perform (First and second sorceress)
    1:26
  22. 22.
    In our deep vaulted cell (Chorus, in the manner of an echo)
    1:00
  23. 23.
    Echo Dance of Furies
    0:59
  24. 24.
    Ritornelle (Orchestra)
    0:36
  25. 25.
    Thank to these lonesome vales (Belinda, chorus)
    1:14
  26. 26.
    Oft she visits this lov'd mountain (Second woman)
    2:10
  27. 27.
    Behold upon my bleeding spear (Aeneas, Dido)
    0:35
  28. 28.
    Haste, haste to town (Belinda, Chorus)
    0:56
  29. 29.
    Stay, Prince, and hear Jove's command (Spirit, Aeneas)
    2:58
  30. 30.
    Praeludium for the sailors
    0:40
  31. 31.
    Come away, felow sailors (First sailor, Chorus)
    1:20
  32. 32.
    The Sailor's Dance
    0:52
  33. 33.
    See, the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress, first witch)
    0:59
  34. 34.
    Our next motion (Sorceress)
    0:43
  35. 35.
    Destruction's our delight (Chorus)
    0:37
  36. 36.
    The Witches' Dance
    1:21
  37. 37.
    Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
    4:21
  38. 38.
    Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)
    1:16
  39. 39.
    Thy hand, Belinda (Dido - recitative)
    0:52
  40. 40.
    When I am laid in earth (Dido)
    3:07
  41. 41.
    With drooping wings ye Cupids come (Chorus)
    2:31

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