Dido & Aeneas

Album by Henry Purcell & Jennifer Lane & Michael Brown & I Musici di San Cassiano & Bradley Brookshire

Dido and Aeneas is an opera by English composer Henry Purcell, first performed around 1689. It is a compact Baroque opera in English that features recitative, aria-like numbers and choruses with expressive melodies over a ground bass, and it is an early work in Purcell's theatre output and in the development of English opera.

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  1. 1.
    Introduction / “Shake”
    3:01
  2. 2.
    “Ah Belinda”
    4:02
  3. 3.
    “When monarchs”
    2:06
  4. 4.
    “Fear no”
    2:28
  5. 5.
    “See, see”
    1:24
  6. 6.
    “If not for mine”
    2:00
  7. 7.
    “To the hills”
    2:29
  8. 8.
    “Weyward sisters”
    4:02
  9. 9.
    “But e’er we this”
    3:45
  10. 10.
    “Thanks to these”
    3:19
  11. 11.
    “Oft she visits”
    3:52
  12. 12.
    “Behold, upon”
    1:27
  13. 13.
    “Stay, Prince”
    3:43
  14. 14.
    “Come, away”
    2:31
  15. 15.
    “See, see the flags”
    3:33
  16. 16.
    “Your counsel all”
    3:54
  17. 17.
    “Great minds”
    0:44
  18. 18.
    “Thy hand, Belinda”
    4:17
  19. 19.
    “With drooping wings”
    3:47

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