Dido & Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell & Sarah Connolly & Gerald Finley & Lucy Crowe & Patricia Bardon & John Mark Ainsley & Choir of the Age of Enlightenment & Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment & Steven Devine & Elizabeth Kenny

Dido and Aeneas is a short English opera by composer Henry Purcell, composed and first performed around 1689. The work exemplifies English Baroque vocal and theatrical writing with a small instrumental ensemble and continuo accompaniment, and it occupies a central place in Purcell's stage oeuvre and in the development of English opera.
First released: 5th January 2009

Tracklist

  1. 1.
    Overture
    2:03
  2. 2.
    “Shake the cloud from off your brow”
    1:08
  3. 3.
    “Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment”
    6:40
  4. 4.
    “Grief increases by concealing”
    0:50
  5. 5.
    “Whence could so much virtue spring?”
    4:22
  6. 6.
    “See, your royal guest appears”
    0:53
  7. 7.
    “Cupid only throws the dart”
    0:40
  8. 8.
    “If not for mine, for Empire’s sake” – “Pursue thy conquest, love”
    1:09
  9. 9.
    Gittars Chacony
    2:32
  10. 10.
    “To the hills and vales”
    1:03
  11. 11.
    Triumphing Dance
    1:27
  12. 12.
    Prelude – “Wayward sisters” – “Harm’s our delight”
    2:12
  13. 13.
    “The Queen of Carthage” – “Ho ho ho!”
    0:40
  14. 14.
    “Ruin’d ’ere the set of sun?” – “Ho ho ho!”
    2:26
  15. 15.
    “In our deep vaulted cell, the charm we’ll prepare”
    1:19
  16. 16.
    Echo Dance of Furies
    1:16
  17. 17.
    Ritornelle
    0:50
  18. 18.
    “Thanks to these lonesome vales”
    2:59
  19. 19.
    Gittars Passacaille
    3:05
  20. 20.
    “Oft she visits this lone mountain”
    1:47
  21. 21.
    “Behold, upon my bending spear” – “Haste, haste to town”
    1:22
  22. 22.
    “Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command”
    2:38
  23. 23.
    “Then since our charms have sped”
    1:31
  24. 24.
    Prelude – “Come away, fellow sailors” – The Sailors’ Dance
    2:17
  25. 25.
    “See the flags and streamers curling”
    1:02
  26. 26.
    “Our next motion”
    1:16
  27. 27.
    The Witches’ Dance
    1:22
  28. 28.
    Almand – “Your counsel all is urg’d in vain”
    7:48
  29. 29.
    “Great minds against themselves conspire”
    1:00
  30. 30.
    “Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me” – “When I am laid in earth”
    5:05
  31. 31.
    “With drooping wings ye cupids come”
    4:53

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