Dido and Aeneas
Purcell; Mary Thomas, Honor Sheppard, Helen Watts, Maurice Bevan, Ellen Dales, Robert Tear, Harold Lester, Oriana Concert Choir and Orchestra, Alfred Deller · 1964 · Album
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Tracklist
- Overture
- Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda, Chorus)
- Ah ! Ah ! Ah ! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido)
- Grief increase by concealing ... (Belinda, Dido)
- When monarchs unite, how happy their state (Chorus)
- Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido, Belinda)
- Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, second woman, Chorus)
- See, see, your royal guest appears (Belinda, Aeneas)
- Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus)
- If not or mine, for empire's sake (Aeneas)
- Pursue thy conquest, love, her eyes (Belinda)
- To the hills and the vales (Chorus)
- The triumphing dance
- Prelude for the witches (Sorceress)
- Wayward sisters, you that fright (First witch, Sorceress)
- Harm's your delight (Chorus)
- The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress)
- Ho ! Ho ! Ho ! (Chorus)
- Ruin'd ere the set of sun? (First witch, Sorceress)
- Ho ! Ho ! Ho ! (Chorus)
- But ere we this perform (First and second sorceress)
- In our deep vaulted cell (Chorus, in the manner of an echo)
- Echo Dance of Furies
- Ritornelle (Orchestra)
- Thank to these lonesome vales (Belinda, chorus)
- Oft she visits this lov'd mountain (Second woman)
- Behold upon my bleeding spear (Aeneas, Dido)
- Haste, haste to town (Belinda, Chorus)
- Stay, Prince, and hear Jove's command (Spirit, Aeneas)
- Praeludium for the sailors
- Come away, felow sailors (First sailor, Chorus)
- The Sailor's Dance
- See, the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress, first witch)
- Our next motion (Sorceress)
- Destruction's our delight (Chorus)
- The Witches' Dance
- Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
- Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)
- Thy hand, Belinda (Dido - recitative)
- When I am laid in earth (Dido)
- With drooping wings ye Cupids come (Chorus)
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