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Dido and Aeneas Z 626

Libretto: Nahum Tate
Nicholas McGegan, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Choir of Clare College Cambridge, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson (Voice), Lisa Saffer (Voice), Donna Deam (Voice), Christine Brandes (Voice), Ellen Rabiner (Voice), Paul Elliott (Voice), Michael Dean (Voice)
℗ 1994
28 Tracks, 50:14
    • Overture
      01:52

  • Act I

    • 1. Shake the cloud from off your brow - Banish sorrow
      00:58
    • 2. Ah! Belinda
      03:26
    • 3. Grief increases by concealing – When monarchs unite
      02:30
    • 4. Fear no danger to ensue
      01:32
    • 5. See, your Royal Guest appears - Cupid only throws
      01:39
    • 6. Pursue thy conquest, Love
      00:45
    • 7. To the hills and the vales – The Triumphing Dance
      02:14

  • Act II

    • 1. Prelude – Wayward sisters – Harm's our delight
      02:20
    • 2. Ruin'd ere the set of sun?
      00:59
    • 3. But ere we this perform
      01:10
    • 4. In our deep vaulted cell – Echo Dance of Furies
      02:00
    • 5. Ritornelle
      00:37
    • 6. Thanks to these lonesome vales
      02:26
    • 7. Oft she visits this lov'd mountain
      02:27
    • 8. Behold, upon my bending spear
      00:33
    • 9. Haste, haste to town
      00:42
    • 10. Stay, Prince – Jove's commands
      02:35
    • 11. Ritornelle
      00:48

  • Act III

    • 1. Prelude – Come away, fellow sailors
      01:29
    • 2. The Sailor's Dance
      00:45
    • 3. See the flags
      01:02
    • 4. Our next Motion – Destruction's our delight
      01:03
    • 5. The Witches' Dance
      01:09
    • 6. Your counsel all is urged in vain
      03:50
    • 7. Great minds against themselves conspire
      00:43
    • 8. With drooping wings ye Cupids Come
      04:33
    • 9. Thy hand, Belinda – When I am laid in earth
      04:07