Dido and Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell & Collegium Musicum 90 & Richard Hickox & Maria Ewing & Karl Morgan Daymond

Dido and Aeneas is a short English opera by Henry Purcell, first performed around 1689. Rooted in the Baroque style, it features expressive vocal writing, continuo-supported harmonies and dance-influenced instrumental passages with concise dramatic pacing, and it occupies a notable place among Purcell's stage works and early English opera history.

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  1. 1.
    Dido and Aeneas: Overture
    1:54
  2. 2.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Shake the Cloud from off your Brow" (Belinda, Chorus)
    1:03
  3. 3.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Ah! Belinda I am prest" (Dido)
    4:24
  4. 4.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Grief increases by concealing" (Dido, Belinda)
    0:35
  5. 5.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "When Monarchs unite" (Chorus)
    0:14
  6. 6.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Whence could so much Virtue spring" (Dido, Belinda)
    2:02
  7. 7.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Fear no danger to ensue" (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
    1:35
  8. 8.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "See your royal Guest appears" (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)
    0:58
  9. 9.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Cupid only thrrows the dart" (Chorus)
    0:32
  10. 10.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "If not for Mine" (Aeneas)
    0:26
  11. 11.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "Pursue your Conquest, Love" (Belinda)
    0:46
  12. 12.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. "To the Hills and the Vales" (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)
    1:07
  13. 13.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I. Triumphing Dance
    1:17
  14. 14.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 1. "Wayward Sisters" (Sorceress)
    1:58
  15. 15.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 1. "Harm's our Delight" (Chorus)
    0:14
  16. 16.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 1. "The Queen of Carthage" (Sorceress)
    0:29
  17. 17.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 1. "Ha ha ha!" (Chorus)
    0:09
  18. 18.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 1. "Ruin'd ere the set of Sun?" (Witches)
    0:56
  19. 19.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 1. "Ha ha ha!" (Chorus)
    0:08
  20. 20.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 1. "But ere we this perform" (Witches)
    1:07
  21. 21.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 1. "In our deep vaulted Cell" (Chorus)
    1:21
  22. 22.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 1. Echo Dance of Furies
    1:05
  23. 23.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 2. Ritornelle
    0:39
  24. 24.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 2. "Thanks to these lonesome Vales" (Belinda, Chorus)
    2:37
  25. 25.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 2. "Oft she visits this lov'd mountain" (Second Woman)
    1:53
  26. 26.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 2. "Behold upon my bending Spear" (Aeneas, Dido)
    0:32
  27. 27.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 2. "Haste, haste to Town" (Belinda, Chorus)
    0:45
  28. 28.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II, Scene 2. "Stay, Prince" (Spirit, Aeneas)
    2:45
  29. 29.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 1. Prelude - "Come Away" (First Sailor, Chorus)
    1:35
  30. 30.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 1. The Sailors' Dance
    0:43
  31. 31.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 1. "See the Flags and Streamers curling" (Sorceress, Witches)
    0:54
  32. 32.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 1. "Our next Motion" (Sorceress)
    0:38
  33. 33.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 1. "Destruction's our Delight" (Chorus)
    0:32
  34. 34.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 1. The Witches' Dance
    1:15
  35. 35.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 2. "Your Counsel all is urg'd in van" (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
    4:16
  36. 36.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 2. "Great Minds against themselves conspire" (Chorus)
    1:01
  37. 37.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 2. "Thy hand, Belinda" (Dido)
    1:02
  38. 38.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 2. "When I am laid in earth" (Dido)
    3:52
  39. 39.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III, Scene 2. "With drooping Wings ye Cupids come" (Chorus)
    5:27

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