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Dido and Aeneas Z 626

Libretto: Nahum Tate
Emmanuelle Haïm, European Voices, Le Concert d'Astrée, Camilla Tilling (Soprano), Susan Graham (Mezzo Soprano), Cécile De Boever (Soprano), Ian Bostridge (Tenor), Felicity Palmer (Mezzo Soprano), David Daniels (Countertenor), Paul Agnew (Tenor)
℗ 2003
36 Tracks, 53:02
    • Overture
      02:16

  • Act I

    • 1. "Shake the cloud from off your brow" (Belinda)
      00:36
    • 2. "Banish sorrow, banish care" (Chorus)
      00:32
    • 3. "Ah! Belinda, I am prest, with torment not to be confest" (Dido)
      04:07
    • 4. "Grief increasing by concealing" (Belinda, Dido)
      00:34
    • 5. "When Monarchs unite how happy their state" (Chorus)
      00:15
    • 6. "Whence could so much virtue spring?" (Dido, Belinda, Second Woman)
      01:41
    • 7. "Fear no danger to ensue" (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus) - Dance this Chorus, the Baske
      02:15
    • 8. "See, your Royal Guest appears" (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)
      00:48
    • 9. "Cupid only throws the dart" (Chorus)
      00:35
    • 10. "If not for mine, for empire's sake" (Aeneas, Belinda) - A Dance, Gittars Chacony
      01:30
    • 11. "To the hills and the vales" (Chorus)
      01:03
    • 12. The Triumphing Dance
      01:26

  • Act II

    • 1. Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward sisters, you that fright" (Sorceress/Sorcerer, First Witch) - "Harm’s our delight" (Chorus)
      02:11
    • 2. "The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate" (Sorceress/Sorcerer) - "Ho ho ho" (Chorus)
      00:39
    • 3. "Ruin'd e're the set of sun?" (First Witch, Second Witch, Sorceress) - "Ho ho ho" (Chorus) - Dance
      01:10
    • 4. "But e're we this perform" (First Witch, Second Witch)
      01:12
    • 5. "In our deep vaulted cell the charm" (Chorus) - Dance
      01:28
    • 6. Echo Dance of Furies
      01:18
    • 7. Ritornelle
      00:43
    • 8. "Thanks to these lonesome vales" (Belinda, Chorus) - Dance
      03:15
    • 9. "Oft she visits this lone mountain" (Second Woman) - A Dance to entertain Aeneas
      02:18
    • 10. "Behold upon my bending spear" (Aeneas, Dido)
      00:30
    • 11. "Haste, haste to town this open field" (Belinda, Chorus)
      00:45
    • 12. "Stay, Prince, and hear Great Jove's command" (Spirit, Aeneas, Sorceress/Sorcerer, First Witch, Second Witch) - The Groves Dance
      02:19

  • Act III

    • 1. Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors" (A Sailor, Chorus)
      01:36
    • 2. The Sailors' Dance
      00:50
    • 3. "See the flags and streamers curling" (Sorceress/Sorcerer, First Witch, Second Witch)
      01:03
    • 4. "Our next motion must be to storm" (Sorceress/Sorcerer)
      00:42
    • 5. "Destruction's our delight" (Chorus)
      00:32
    • 6. The Witches' Dance
      01:22
    • 7. "Your councel all is urg’d in vain" (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
      03:27
    • 8. "Great minds against themselves conspire" (Chorus)
      00:51
    • 9. "Thy hand Belinda" (Dido)
      00:57
    • 10. "When I am laid in earth" (Dido)
      04:00
    • 11. "With drooping wings" (Chorus)
      02:16