Composer: Henry Purcell
Performer: Patricia Clark, Dame Janet Baker, Raimund Herincx, Eileen Poulter, Rhianon James, Catherine Wilson, Monica Sinclair, Dorothy Dorow, John Mitchinson, Hervey Alan, William Herbert, Jennifer Vyvyan, St. Anthony Singers, Philomusica of London
Orchestra: English Chamber Orchestra
Conductor: Sir Anthony Lewis
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Diapason
Catalogue: 172
Release: 2024
Size: 373 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626
01. Overture
Act I
02. No. 1. Solo and Chorus, “Shake the Cloud from off Your Brow” (Belinda, Chorus)
03. No. 2. Song, “Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest, with Torment Not to Be Confest” (Dido) – No. 3. Recitative, “Grief Increasing by Concealing” (Belinda, Dido) – No. 4. Chorus, “When Monarchs Unite How Happy Their State”
04. No. 5. Recitative, “Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring?” (Dido, Belinda, Second Woman)
05. No. 6. Duet and Chorus, “Fear No Danger to Ensue” (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus) – Dance this Chorus, the Baske
06. No. 7. Recitative, “See, your Royal Guest” (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) – No. 8. Chorus, “Cupid Only” – No. 9. Recitative, “If not ” – No. 10. Air, “Pursue Thy conquest” (Aeneas, Belinda) – No. 11. Chorus, “To the hills”
Act II
07. Scene 1: No. 13. Prelude for the Witches, “Wayward sisters” (Sorceress, First Witch) – No. 14. Chorus, “Harm’s Our Delight” – No. 15. Recitative, “The Queen of Carthage, Whom We Hate” (Sorceress) – No. 16. Chorus, “Ho ho”
08. Scene 1: No. 17. Recitative, “Ruin’d E’re the Set of Sun?” (Witches, Sorceress) – No. 18. Chorus, “Ho ho” – No. 19. Duet, “But E’re We this Perform” (Witches) – No. 20. Chorus, “In our deep” – No. 21. Echo Dance of Furies
09. Scene 2: No. 22. Ritornelle – No. 23. Song and Chorus, “Thanks to These Lonesome Vales” (Belinda, Chorus) – Dance
10. Scene 1: No. 24. Song, “Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain” (Second Woman) – A Dance to Entertain Aeneas
11. Scene 1: No. 25. Recitative, “Behold upon My Bending Spear” (Aeneas, Dido) – No. 26. Song and Chorus, “Haste to town this open field” (Belinda, Chorus)
12. Scene 1: No. 27. Recitative, “Stay, Prince, and Hear Great Jove’s Command” (Spirit, Aeneas, Sorceress, First Witch, Second Witch) – The Groves Dance
Act III
13. Scene 1: No. 28. Prelude, Song and Chorus, “Come Away, Fellow Sailors” (First Sailor, Chorus) – No. 29. The Sailors’ Dance
14. Scene 1: No. 30. Recitative and Song, “See the Flags and Streamers Curling” (Sorceress, First Witch, Second Witch) – No. 31. Chorus, “Destruction’s our Delight” – No. 32. The Witches’ Dance
15. Scene 2: No. 33. Recitative, “Your Councel All Is Urg’d in Vain” (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
16. Scene 2: No. 34. Recitative, “But Death, Alas!” (Dido) – No. 35. Chorus, “Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire” – No. 36. Recitative, “Thy Hand, Belinda” (Dido) – No. 37. Song, “When I Am Laid in Earth” (Dido)
17. Scene 2: No. 38. Chorus, “With Drooping Wings”
The Tempest, Z. 631
18. No. 3. Song, “Arise Ye Subterranean Winds” (Spirit I)
19. Act IV: No. 16. Recitative and Song, “Aeolus You Must Appear … While These Pass O’er the Deep” (Neptune)
20. Act IV: No. 17. Recitative and Song, “Your Awful Voice I Hear and Obey … Come Down my Blusterers” (Aeolus)
21. Act IV: No. 18. Song, “Halcyon Days, Now Wars Are Ending” (Amphitrite)
22. Act IV: No. 19. Song, “See the Heavens Smile” (Neptune)