Dido and Aeneas

Dido and Aeneas

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

Album
Label Virgin Veritas Release date Format CD Country 🇬🇧 United Kingdom

Tracklist 52:52

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