Dido & Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell & Fleur Barron & Matthew Brook & Giulia Semenzato & Tim Mead & Nicky Spence & La Nuova Musica & David Bates

Dido and Aeneas is a Baroque opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed around 1689. The compact three-act work draws on late 17th-century English and French Baroque idioms, combining expressive recitative, lyrical arias and choral writing with continuo and instrumental colour, and it occupies a notable place in Purcell's stage repertory and the early history of English opera.

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  1. 1.
    Dido and Aeneas: Overture
    3:12
  2. 2.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: Shake the cloud – Banish Sorrow
    1:06
  3. 3.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: Ah! Belinda
    4:27
  4. 4.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: Grief increases by concealing – When Monarchs unite – When could so much virtue spring
    2:29
  5. 5.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: Fear no danger – See, your royal guest appears
    2:23
  6. 6.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: Cupid only throws the dart – If not for mine for Empire’s sake – Persue thy conquest Love
    1:58
  7. 7.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: To the hills and the vales – The Triumphing Dance
    2:27
  8. 8.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: Prelude for the Witches
    0:46
  9. 9.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: Wayward sisters – Harm’s our delight
    1:21
  10. 10.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: The queen of Carthage – Ho, Ho, Ho
    0:41
  11. 11.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: Ruined ere the set of Sun! – The trojan Prince – Ho, Ho, Ho
    1:07
  12. 12.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: But ere we this perform – In our deep vaulted cell – Dance
    3:36
  13. 13.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: The Grove – Thanks to these lonesome vales
    3:44
  14. 14.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: Gitter Ground at Dance – Often she visits
    3:01
  15. 15.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: Behold, apon my bending spear – The skies are coloured – Haste haste to town
    1:17
  16. 16.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: Stay Prince
    2:43
  17. 17.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: The Sailors dance
    2:16
  18. 18.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: See, See the flags – Our next motion – Destruction’s our delight
    2:00
  19. 19.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: The Witches’ Dance
    2:11
  20. 20.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: Your counsel all is urged in vain – Great minds
    4:58
  21. 21.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: Thy Hand Belinda
    0:52
  22. 22.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: When I am laid
    3:27
  23. 23.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: With drooping wings
    5:16

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