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Table of Contents:

• Overture (2:19)
• Act I. Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda), Banish sorrorw, banish care (chorus) (2:14) ; Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido), Grief increases by concealing ... (Belinda, Dido), When monarchs unite, how happy their state (4:44) ; Whence could so much virtue spring (Dido, Belinda), Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, second woman, chorus) (3:32) ; See, your royal guest appears (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) ... Cupid only throws the dart (chorus) (1:27) ; If not for mine, for empire's sake (Aeneas) ... Pursue thy conquest, Love (Belinda), To the hills and the vales, to the rocks and the mountains (chorus) (2:18) ; The triumphing dance (1:11)
• Act II. Prelude for witches. Wayward sisters, you that fright (sorceress, first witch), Harm's our delight and mischief all our skill (chorus), The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (sorceress), Ho, ho, ho (chorus) (2:33) ; Ruin'd ere the set of sun (witches, sorceress), Ho, ho, ho (chorus), But ere we perform (witches) (2:22) ; In our deep-vaulted cell the charm we'll prepare (chorus) (1:41) ; Echo dance of furies (0:54) ; Ritornelle, Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda, chorus) (3:19) ; Oft she visits this lone mountain (second woman), ritornelle (2:17) ; Behold, upon my bending spear (Aeneas, Dido), Haste, haste to town (1:22) ; Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command (spirit, Aeneas) (2:40)
• Act III. Prelude, Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing (first sailor, chorus) (1:33) ; The sailors' dance, See the flags and streamers curling (sorceress, witches) (1:43) ; Our next motion (sorceress), Destruction's our delight (chorus) (1:13) ; The witches' dance (1:12) ; Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas), Great minds against themselves conspire (5:02) ; Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me (Dido), When I am laid in the earth (Dido) (4:22) ; With drooping wings ye Cupids come (chorus) (4:54).

Author/Creator:

Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695 , composer

Contributors:

Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715 , librettist

Otter, Anne Sofie von , singer

Dawson, Lynne , singer

Varcoe, Stephen , singer

Rogers, Nigel, 1935- , singer

Priday, Elisabeth , singer

Hall, Carol , singer

Leonard, Sarah , singer

Amps, Kym , singer

Pinnock, Trevor , conductor, instrumentalist

English Concert (Musical group) , instrumentalist, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/itr

English Concert (Musical group) > Choir , singer, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/sng

Languages:

English
French
German

Language Notes:

Sung in English.

Main Work:

Dido and Aeneas [by Purcell, H.]

Other Related Resources:

Reproduction of: Dido and Aeneas [sound recording] / Henry Purcell [by Purcell, H.] (Hamburg, Germany : Archiv Produktion, p1989 — OCLC Number 42546754)

Subjects:

Operas

Dido (Legendary character) — Musical settings

Aeneas (Legendary character) — Musical settings

Dido (Legendary character)

Dido

Aeneas (Legendary character)

Genres:

Operas

Musical settings

Performers:

Anne Sofie von Otter, Dido ; Lynne Dawson, Belinda ; Stephen Varcoe, Aeneas ; Nigel Rogers, sorceress, first sailor ; Elisabeth Priday, first witch ; Carol Hall, second witch ; Sarah Leonard, second woman ; Kym Amps, spirit ; The English Concert ; Choir of the English Concert ; Trevor Pinnock, harpsichord, conductor.

Production Credits:

Executive producer, Dr. Andreas Holschneider , Charolotte Kriesch ; recording producer, Dr. Gerd Ploebsch.

Performance Medium:

8 performers and 2 ensembles: solo soprano voice (2); solo mezzo-soprano voice (4); solo tenor voice; solo baritone voice; mixed chorus; chamber orchestra

General Notes:

Originally released in 1989 as 427 624-2 by Archiv .
Title from disc label.
From the boxed set, titled, "The All-Baroque Box."
Recorded Henry Wood Hall, London 1988 July.

Physical Description:

1 audio disc (53:41) ; 4 3/4 in.

Physical Characteristics:

plastic; metal; 4 3/4 in.; 1.4 m/s; mass-produced

Audio Characteristics:

digital; optical; stereo

Digital Characteristics:

audio file; CD audio

Call Numbers:

LPCD 144,251 v.10

Other Standard Numbers:

Universal Product Code: 028947904410
Publisher Number: 00 289 479 0441 (set)
Publisher Number, Archiv Produktion: 002894790454

OCLC Numbers:

826721075