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.

First released: 1989

Tracklist

1.
Dido and Aeneas: Overture
2:16
2.
Dido and Aeneas: Act I: "Shake the cloud from off your brow"
1:14
3.
Dido and Aeneas: Act I: "Ah! Belinda, I am prest"
4:51
4.
Dido and Aeneas: Act I: "Whence could so much virtue spring?" / "Fear no danger to ensue"
3:44
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.
Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene I: Prelude for the Witches
1:02
7.
Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene I: "Wayward sisters" / "But ere we this perform"
5:02
8.
Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene I: "In our deep vaulted cell" / "Echo dance of Furies"
2:15
9.
Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene II: Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
3:26
10.
Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene II: "Oft she visits this lone mountain" / "Behold, upon my bending spear"
4:00
11.
Dido and Aeneas: Act II: Scene II: "Stay, Prince" / "Jove's commands shall be obey'd"
3:22
12.
Dido and Aeneas: Act III: Scene I: Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"
1:39
13.
Dido and Aeneas: Act III: Scene I: The Sailors' Dance / "See the flags" / "Destruction's our delight" / "The Witches' Dance"
4:22
14.
Dido and Aeneas: Act III: Scene II: "Your counsel all is urged in vain" / "But Death, alas!"
5:17
15.
Dido and Aeneas: Act III: Scene II: "Thy hand, Belinda" / "When I am laid in earth"
5:01
16.
Dido and Aeneas: Act III: Scene II: "With drooping wings"
4:54