Purcell: Dido And Aeneas – Trevor Pinnock

Dido and Aeneas
Overture (Original Version)
Dido and Aeneas (Original Version)
“Shake the cloud from off your brow” – “Banish sorrow, banish care” (Act 1)
“Ah! Belinda, I am press’d” … “When monarchs unite, how happy” (Act 1)
“Whence could so much virtue spring?” – “Fear no danger” (Act 1)
“See, your royal guest appears” – “Cupid only throws the dart” (Act 1)
“If not for mine, for empire’s sake” … “To the hills and the vales” (Act 1)
The Triumphing Dance (Act 1)
Prelude for the Witches “Wayward sisters” … “Ho, ho, ho” (Act 2)
“Ruin’d ere the set of sun” … “But ere we this perform” (Act 2)
“In our deep vaulted cell” (Act 2)
Echo Dance of Furies (Act 2)
Ritornelle – “Thanks to these lonesome vales” (Act 2)
“Oft she visits” (Act 2)
“Behold, upon my bending spear” – “Haste, haste to town” (Act 2)
“Stay, Prince” (Act 2)
Prelude – “Come away, fellow sailors” (Act 3)
The Sailors’ Dance “See the flags and streamers curling” (Act 3)
“Our next motion” – “Destructions’s our delight” (Act 3)
The Witches’ Dance (Act 3)
“Your counsel all is urg’d in vain” – “Great minds against themselves conspire” (Act 3)
“Thy hand, Belinda…When I am laid in earth” (Act 3)
“With drooping wings” (Act 3)

Stephen Varcoe (Aeneas),L Anne Sofie von Otter (Dido)

Reference: 427624200289
Barcode: 0028942762428
Length: 0:57:25
Label: DG