Dido & Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell & Armonico Consort & Christopher Monks & Rachael Lloyd & Robert Davies & Elin Manahan Thomas

Dido and Aeneas is a short Baroque opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed around 1689. The work exemplifies English Baroque vocal and theatrical writing with continuo-accompanied recitative, choral numbers and dance-derived orchestral passages, and it occupies a central place in Purcell's stage output and the development of English opera.
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  1. 1.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
    1:50
  2. 2.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Belinda & Chorus - “Shake the cloud from off your brow”
    1:02
  3. 3.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Dido - “Ah! Belinda, I am press’d with torment”
    3:11
  4. 4.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Belinda & Dido - “Grief increases by concealing”
    0:28
  5. 5.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Chorus - “When monarchs unite, how happy their state”
    0:17
  6. 6.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Dido & Belinda - “Whence could so much virtue spring?”
    1:37
  7. 7.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Belinda, Second Woman & Chorus - “Fear no danger to ensue”
    1:26
  8. 8.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Belinda, Aeneas, Dido - “See, your royal guest appears”
    0:43
  9. 9.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Chorus - “Cupid only throws the dart”
    0:37
  10. 10.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Aeneas - “If not for mine, for Empire’s sake”
    0:20
  11. 11.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Belinda - “Pursue thy conquest love”
    0:47
  12. 12.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Guitars’ Chaconne
    0:45
  13. 13.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Chorus - “To the hills and the vales”
    1:09
  14. 14.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: The Triumphing Dance
    1:16
  15. 15.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Prelude for the Witches (Sorceress & First Witch) - “Wayward sisters”
    1:41
  16. 16.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Chorus - “Harm’s our delight”
    0:15
  17. 17.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Sorceress - “The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate”
    0:25
  18. 18.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Chorus - “Ho ho ho, ho ho ho!”
    0:10
  19. 19.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: First & Second Witches, Sorceress - “Ruin’d ere the set of sun?”
    1:03
  20. 20.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Chorus - “Ho ho ho, ho ho ho!” (Reprise)
    0:09
  21. 21.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: First & Second Witches - “But, ere we this perform”
    1:07
  22. 22.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Chorus - “In our deep vaulted cell”
    1:33
  23. 23.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 1: Echo Dance of Furies
    1:05
  24. 24.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Ritornelle
    0:46
  25. 25.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Belinda & Chorus - “Thanks to these lonesome vales”
    2:49
  26. 26.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Second Woman - “Oft she visits this lone mountain”
    1:47
  27. 27.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Aeneas & Dido - “Behold, upon my bended spear”
    0:26
  28. 28.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Belinda & Chorus - “Haste to town”
    0:49
  29. 29.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II Scene 2: Spirit & Aeneas: “Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove’s command”
    2:31
  30. 30.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: The Sailor’s Dance I
    0:35
  31. 31.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: Drunken Sailor & Chorus - “Come away, fellow sailors”
    1:01
  32. 32.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: The Sailor’s Dance II
    0:41
  33. 33.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: Sorceress, First & Second Witches - “See, the flags and streamers curling”
    0:59
  34. 34.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: Sorceress - “Our next motion”
    0:32
  35. 35.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: Chorus - “Destruction’s our delight”
    0:37
  36. 36.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 1: The Witches’ Dance
    1:15
  37. 37.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Dido, Belinda & Aeneas - “Your counsel all is urged in vain”
    3:33
  38. 38.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Chorus - “Great minds against themselves conspire”
    1:19
  39. 39.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Dido - “Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me”
    0:58
  40. 40.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Dido - “When I am laid in earth”
    3:36
  41. 41.
    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III Scene 2: Chorus - “With drooping wings”
    3:14

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