Dido and Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell & Anne Sofie von Otter & Stephen Varcoe & Lynne Dawson & Nigel Rogers & The English Concert & The English Concert Choir & Trevor Pinnock

Dido and Aeneas is a chamber opera by the English composer Henry Purcell, first performed around 1689. The work is a compact Baroque opera that blends English recitative and aria with choral and dance passages and uses repeating ground bass and expressive harmonic writing, and it is an early surviving example of English-language opera that sits within Purcell's stage output.
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
    2:19
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Shake the cloud from off your brow" (Belinda) / "Banish sorrow, bannish care" (Chorus)
    1:02
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment" (Dido) / "Grief increases by concealing..." (Belinda, Dido) / "When monarchs unite, how happy their state" (Chorus)
    4:43
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "Whence could so much virtue spring" (Dido, Belinda) / "Fear no danger to ensue" (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
    3:32
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "See, your royal guest appears" (Belinda, Æneas, Dido) / "Cupid only throws the dirt" (Chorus)
    1:26
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. "If not for mine, for empire's sake" (Æneas) / "Pursue thy conquest, Love" (Belinda) / "To the hills and the vales, to the rocks and the mountains" (Chorus)
    2:18
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. The Triumphing Dance
    1:17
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. Prelude for the Witches: "Wayward sisters, you that fright" (Sorceress, First Witch) / "Harm's our delight and mischief all our skill" (Chorus) / "The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate" (Sorceress) / "Ho, ho, ho" (Chorus)
    2:33
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Ruin'd ere the set of sun" (Witches, Sorceress) / "Ho, ho, ho" (Chorus) / "But ere we this perform" (Witches)
    2:21
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "In our deep-vaulted cell the charm we'll prepare" (Chorus)
    1:41
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. Echo Dance of Furies
    0:56
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. Ritornelle / "Thanks to these lonesome vales" (Belinda, Chorus)
    3:19
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Oft she visits this lone mountain" (Second woman) / Ritornelle
    2:16
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Behold, upon my bending spear" (Æneas, Dido) / "Haste, haste to town" (Belinda, Chorus)
    1:22
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II. "Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command" (Spirit, Æneas)
    2:46
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. Prelude "Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighting" (First sailor, Chorus)
    1:32
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. The Sailors' Dance / "See the flags and streamers curling" (Sorceress, Witches)
    1:42
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "Our next motion" (Sorceress) / "Destruction's our delight" (Chorus)
    1:13
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. The Witches' Dance
    1:12
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" (Dido, Belinda, Æneas) / "Great minds against themselves conspire" (Chorus)
    5:01
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me" (Dido) / "When I am laid in earth" (Dido)
    4:21
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    Dido & Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. "With drooping wings ye Cupids come" (Chorus)
    4:53

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