Dido and Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell & Susan Graham & Ian Bostridge & Camilla Tilling & Felicity Palmer & David Daniels & Cécile De Boever & Paul Agnew & European Voices & Le Concert d’Astrée & Emmanuelle Haïm

Dido and Aeneas is a Baroque opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed around 1689. Scored for voices and a small continuo-led ensemble in the English Baroque style, it features expressive arias, choral writing and dance rhythms and is Purcell's only surviving full-length opera, representing a key example of late 17th-century English stage music.
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  1. 1.
    Dido and Aeneas: Overture
    2:13
  2. 2.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Shake the cloud from off your brow” (Belinda)
    0:36
  3. 3.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Banish sorrow, banish care” (Chorus)
    0:31
  4. 4.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Ah! Belinda, I am pressed with torment” (Dido)
    4:06
  5. 5.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Grief increases by concealing” (Belinda, Dido)
    0:34
  6. 6.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “When monarchs unite, how happy their state” (Chorus)
    0:15
  7. 7.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Whence could so much virtue spring?” (Belinda, Dido)
    1:41
  8. 8.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Fear no danger to ensue” (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
    2:14
  9. 9.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “See, your royal guest appears” (Aeneas, Belinda, Dido)
    0:47
  10. 10.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “Cupid only throws the dart” (Chorus)
    0:35
  11. 11.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “If not for mine, for empire’s sake” (Aeneas, Belinda)
    1:29
  12. 12.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. “To the hills and the vales” (Chorus)
    1:03
  13. 13.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the First, Scene: The Palace. The Triumphing Dance
    1:26
  14. 14.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “Wayward sisters, you that fright” (Sorceress, First Witch) / “Harm’s our delight” (Chorus)
    2:11
  15. 15.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate” (Sorceress) / “Ho Ho Ho!” (Chorus)
    0:39
  16. 16.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “Ruined ere the set of sun?” (Sorceress, Two Witches) / “Ho Ho Ho!” (Chorus)
    1:09
  17. 17.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “But ere we this perform” (Two Witches)
    1:12
  18. 18.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. “In our deep vaulted cell” (Chorus in the Manner of an Echo)
    1:28
  19. 19.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 1: The Cave. Echo Dance of Furies
    1:17
  20. 20.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. Ritornelle
    0:43
  21. 21.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Thanks to these lonesome vales” (Belinda, Chorus)
    3:15
  22. 22.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Oft she visits this lone mountain” (Second Woman)
    2:18
  23. 23.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Behold, upon my bending spear” (Aeneas, Dido)
    0:29
  24. 24.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Haste, haste to town” (Belinda, Chorus)
    0:44
  25. 25.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Second, Scene 2: The Grove. “Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command” (Aeneas, Spirit)
    2:18
  26. 26.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “Come away, fellow sailors” (A Sailor, Chorus)
    1:35
  27. 27.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. The Sailor’s Dance
    0:50
  28. 28.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “See the flags and streamers curling” (Sorceress, First and Second Witch)
    1:02
  29. 29.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “Our next motion” (Sorceress)
    0:42
  30. 30.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. “Destruction’s our delight” (Chorus)
    0:32
  31. 31.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 1: The Ships. The Witches’ Dance
    1:22
  32. 32.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “Your counsel all is urged in vain” (Aeneas, Belinda, Dido)
    3:27
  33. 33.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “Great minds against themselves conspire” (Chorus)
    0:50
  34. 34.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me” (Dido)
    0:57
  35. 35.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “When I am laid in earth” (Dido)
    3:50
  36. 36.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act the Third, Scene 2. “With drooping wings” (Chorus)
    2:16

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