Dido and Aeneas and Music for Plays & Masques

Album by Henry Purcell & Nancy Maultsby & Susannah Waters & Russell Braun & Laura Tucker & Richard Clement & Sharon Baker & Boston Baroque & Martin Pearlman

Dido and Aeneas is a Baroque opera by English composer Henry Purcell, composed around 1689, and Music for Plays & Masques refers to his incidental and masque music composed across the 1670s–1690s. Both bodies of work showcase Purcell's blend of expressive vocal writing, dramatic choral textures and skilful instrumental accompaniment, and they occupy a central place in his output as representative examples of late 17th-century English stage music.

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  1. 1.
    Dido and Aeneas: Overture
    1:50
  2. 2.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Shake the cloud from off your brow” / “Banish sorrow”
    1:04
  3. 3.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment”
    3:34
  4. 4.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Grief increases by concealing” / “When monarchs unite”
    0:47
  5. 5.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Whence could so much virtue spring”
    1:45
  6. 6.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Fear no danger to ensue”
    1:30
  7. 7.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “See your royal guest appears” / “Cupid only throws the dart”
    1:26
  8. 8.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “If not for mine, for empire’s sake”
    1:12
  9. 9.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “To the hills and the vales” / The Triumphing Dance
    2:07
  10. 10.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: Prelude for the Witches / “Wayward sisters”
    2:37
  11. 11.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “Ruin’d ere the set of sun?”
    1:10
  12. 12.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “But ere we this perform”
    1:12
  13. 13.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “In our deep vaulted cell” / Echo Dance of the Furies
    2:21
  14. 14.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: Ritornelle / “Thanks to these lonesome vales”
    3:01
  15. 15.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: “Oft she visits this lone mountain”
    1:33
  16. 16.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: “Behold upon my bending spear” / “Haste, haste to town”
    1:19
  17. 17.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: “Stay, Prince, and hear”
    2:23
  18. 18.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: Ritornelle
    0:39
  19. 19.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: Prelude / “Come away fellow sailors” / The Sailors’ Dance
    2:16
  20. 20.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: “See the flags and streamers curling”
    0:56
  21. 21.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: “Our next motion” / “Destruction’s our delight”
    1:09
  22. 22.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: The Witches’ Dance
    1:09
  23. 23.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “Your counsel all is urged in vain”
    3:20
  24. 24.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “But death, alas, I cannot shun” / “Great minds against themselves conspire”
    1:18
  25. 25.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “Thy hand Belinda” / “When I am laid in earth”
    4:09
  26. 26.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “With drooping wings ye Cupids come”
    4:28
  27. 27.
    Abdelazer: Overture
    3:01
  28. 28.
    Abdelazer: Roundeau
    1:21
  29. 29.
    Abdelazer: Air
    1:20
  30. 30.
    The Gordian Knot Unty’d: Minuet
    1:32
  31. 31.
    The Gordian Knot Unty’d: Air
    1:13
  32. 32.
    Timon of Athens: Curtain Tune on a Ground
    1:59
  33. 33.
    The Fairy Queen: Rondeau
    1:28
  34. 34.
    The Fairy Queen: Hornpipe
    0:58
  35. 35.
    The Fairy Queen: Overture
    1:27
  36. 36.
    The Fairy Queen: Dance for the Fairies
    1:05
  37. 37.
    The Fairy Queen: Chaconne
    2:37
  38. 38.
    The Married Beau: Hornpipe on a Ground
    1:29

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