Dido & Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell & Sir Colin Davis & The John Alldis Choir & Academy of St Martin in the Fields

Dido & Aeneas is a short Baroque opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed c. 1689. It combines Baroque vocal and choral writing with colourful instrumental textures and ground-bass techniques, and as one of Purcell's major stage works it occupies an important place in the development of English Baroque opera.
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  1. 1.
    Dido and Aeneas: Overture
    2:20
  2. 2.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 1: Shake the cloud from off your brow
    1:14
  3. 3.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 1: AH! Belinda, I am prest with torment
    4:53
  4. 4.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 1: Whence could so much virtue spring?
    3:46
  5. 5.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 1: See, your Royal Guest appears
    5:32
  6. 6.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 2: Prelude for the Witches
    1:04
  7. 7.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 2: Wayward sisters
    4:38
  8. 8.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 2: In our deep vaulted cell
    2:16
  9. 9.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 2: Ritornelle - Thanks to these lonesome vales
    3:25
  10. 10.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 2: Oft she visits
    2:34
  11. 11.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 2: Behold, upon my bending spear
    1:29
  12. 12.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 2: Stay Prince
    3:30
  13. 13.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 3: Prelude - Come away, fellow sailors
    2:30
  14. 14.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 3: See the flags
    3:35
  15. 15.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 3: Your counsel all is urged in vain
    5:26
  16. 16.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 3: Thy hand Belinda
    1:02
  17. 17.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 3: When I am laid in earth
    3:57
  18. 18.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act 3: With dropping wings
    4:58

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