Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 (Remastered) Victoria de los Angeles, Peter Glossop, Heather Harper, English Chamber Orchestra & Sir John Barbirolli

• Henry Purcell (1659 - 1695): Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626:
• 1 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture 02:43
• Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I:
• 2 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Shake the Cloud from off Your Brow" (Belinda) 00:43
• 3 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Banish Sorrow, Banish Care" (Chorus) 00:37
• 4 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Ah! Belinda, I Am Prest with Torment" (Dido) 04:02
• 5 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Grief Increases by Conceling" (Belinda, Dido) 00:44
• 6 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "When Monarchs Unite" (Chorus) 00:16
• 7 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring?" (Dido) 02:13
• 8 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Fear No Danger to Ensue" (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus) 01:45
• 9 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "See, Your Royal Guest Appears" (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) 00:53
• 10 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Cupid Only Throws the Dart" (Chorus) 00:42
• 11 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake" (Aeneas) 00:24
• 12 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Pursue Thy Conquest, Love" (Belinda) 00:55
• 13 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "To the Hills and the Vales" (Chorus) 01:24
• 14 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: The Triumphing Dance 01:17
• 15 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Wayward Sisters" (Sorceress, First Witch) 03:13
• 16 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Harm's Our Delight and Mischief All Our Skill" (Chorus) 00:17
• 17 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "The Queen of Carthage, Whom We Hate" (Sorceress, Chorus) 00:47
• 18 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "Ruin'd Ere the Set of Sun?" (First and Second Witches, Sorceress, Chorus) 01:36
• 19 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "But, Ere We This Perform" (First and Second Witches) 01:14
• 20 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: "In Our Deep Vaulted Cell" (Chorus) 01:40
• 21 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Echo Dance of Furies 01:20
• Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II:
• 22 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Ritornelle 01:16
• 23 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales" (Belinda, Chorus) 01:37
• 24 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: "Oft She Visits This Lov'd Moiuntain" (Second Woman) 02:41
• 25 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: "Behold, Upon My Bending Spear" (Aeneas, Dido) 00:32
• 26 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: "Haste, Haste to Town" (Belinda, Chorus) 00:52
• 27 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: "Stay, Prince! And Hear Great Jove's Command" (Spirit, Aeneas) 02:51
• Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III:
• 28 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: "Come Away, Fellow Sailors" (Sailor, Chorus) 01:43
• 29 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Sailors' Dance 00:53
• 30 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: "See, See the Flags and Streamers Curling" (Sorceress, First and Second Witches) 01:00
• 31 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: "Our Next Notion Must Be to Storm Her Lover" (Sorceress) 00:40
• 32 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: "Destruction's Our Delight" (Chorus) 00:45
• 33 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Witches' Dance 01:18
• 34 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: "Your Counsel All Is Urg'd in Vain" (Dido, Aeneas, Belinda) 04:09
• 35 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire" (Chorus) 01:25
• 36 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: "Thy Hand, Belinda" (Dido) 01:00
• 37 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: "When I Am Laid in Earth" (Dido) 03:39
• 38 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: "With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come" (Chorus) 03:09
• Total Runtime 58:15

Info for Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626 (Remastered)

Dido and Aeneas (Z. 626) is an opera in a prologue and three acts, written by the English Baroque composer Henry Purcell with a libretto by Nahum Tate. The dates of the composition and first performance of the opera are uncertain. It was composed no later than July 1688, and had been performed at Josias Priest's girls' school in London by the end of 1689. Some scholars argue for a date of composition as early as 1683. The story is based on Book IV of Virgil's Aeneid. It recounts the love of Dido, Queen of Carthage, for the Trojan hero Aeneas, and her despair when he abandons her. A monumental work in Baroque opera, Dido and Aeneas is remembered as one of Purcell's foremost theatrical works.[6] It was also Purcell's only true opera, as well as his only all-sung dramatic work. One of the earliest known English operas, it owes much to John Blow's Venus and Adonis, both in structure and in overall effect.

The influence of Cavalli's opera Didone is also apparent. Both works use the prologue/three acts format and there are similarities between, for instance, Mercury's solo in Didone and the solo "Come away fellow sailors" in Purcell's work.

Victoria De Los Angeles, soprano
Patricia Johnson, mezzo
Sybil Michelow, mezzo-soprano
Clare Walmesley, soprano
Elisabeth Robson, soprano
Heather Harper, soprano
Robert Tear, tenor
Peter Glossop, baritone
Raymond Leppard, harpsichord
The Ambrosian Singers
John McCarthy, chorus master
English Chamber Orchestra
Sir John Barbirolli, conductor

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