Dido and Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell & Academy of St Martin in the Fields & Sir Colin Davis

Dido and Aeneas is a three-act opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed in 1689. Written in the Baroque style, it combines expressive recitative, lyrical arias, choral writing and continuo-based instrumental textures, and is one of the few surviving English operas from the Restoration period that illustrates Purcell's contribution to the development of English Baroque stage music.

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  1. 1.
    Dido and Aeneas: Overture
    2:16
  2. 2.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I: "Shake the cloud from off your brow"
    1:14
  3. 3.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I: "Ah! Belinda, I am prest"
    4:51
  4. 4.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I: "Whence could so much virtue spring?" / "Fear no danger to ensue"
    3:44
  5. 5.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act I: "See, your Royal Guest appears" / "If not for mine" / "To the hills and the vales" / "The Triumphing Dance"
    5:10
  6. 6.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene I: Prelude for the Witches
    1:02
  7. 7.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene I: "Wayward sisters" / "But ere we this perform"
    5:02
  8. 8.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene I: "In our deep vaulted cell" / "Echo dance of Furies"
    2:15
  9. 9.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene II: Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
    3:26
  10. 10.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene II: "Oft she visits this lone mountain" / "Behold, upon my bending spear"
    4:00
  11. 11.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene II: "Stay, Prince" / "Jove's commands shall be obey'd"
    3:22
  12. 12.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III: Scene I: Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"
    1:39
  13. 13.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III: Scene I: The Sailors' Dance / "See the flags" / "Destruction's our delight" / "The Witches' Dance"
    4:22
  14. 14.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III: Scene II: "Your counsel all is urged in vain" / "But Death, alas!"
    5:17
  15. 15.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III: Scene II: "Thy hand, Belinda" / "When I am laid in earth"
    5:01
  16. 16.
    Dido and Aeneas: Act III: Scene II: "With drooping wings"
    4:54

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