Dido & Aeneas / Ode for St. Cecilia's Day

Album by Henry Purcell & Sir John Eliot Gardiner

Dido & Aeneas / Ode for St. Cecilia's Day is a recording of two Baroque works by English composer Henry Purcell, originally composed in 1689 and 1692. Musically it juxtaposes Purcell's dramatic, operatic vocal writing and continuo-led accompaniment with his ceremonial choral textures and Baroque orchestration, situating both pieces within the late 17th-century English vocal tradition.
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  1. 1.
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: Welcome to all the pleasures
    3:34
  2. 2.
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: Here the deities approve
    3:44
  3. 3.
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: While joys celestial their bright souls invade
    2:56
  4. 4.
    Ode for St Cecilia's Day: Beauty thou scene of love
    4:06
  5. 5.
    Dido and Aeneas: Overture
    2:01
  6. 6.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: "Shake the cloud from off your brow"
    1:01
  7. 7.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: "Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment"
    4:12
  8. 8.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: "Whence could so much virtue spring?" - "Fear no danger"
    3:30
  9. 9.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: "See, your Royal Guest appears" - "If not for mine"
    2:32
  10. 10.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: Ciaccona
    0:59
  11. 11.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: "To the hills and the vales" - The Triumphing Dance
    2:15
  12. 12.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward sisters"
    5:04
  13. 13.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: "In our deep vaulted cell" - Echo Dance of the Furies
    2:01
  14. 14.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
    3:15
  15. 15.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: Folías
    0:58
  16. 16.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: "Oft she visits"
    2:06
  17. 17.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: "Behold, upon my bending spear"
    4:25
  18. 18.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors" - Sailor's Dance
    2:13
  19. 19.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: "See the flags" - Destruction's our delight - The Witches' Dance
    3:16
  20. 20.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: "Your counsel all is urged in vain"
    3:17
  21. 21.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: "But death, alas!"
    1:15
  22. 22.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: "Thy hand, Belinda...When I am laid in earth"
    4:05
  23. 23.
    Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: "With drooping wings"
    4:14

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