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Dido and Aeneas Z 626

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

  • Act I

    • 1. Overture
      02:16
    • 2. Song. "Shake the Cloud from off Your Brow" (Belinda)
      00:36
    • 3. Chorus. "Banish Sorrow, Banish Care" (Chorus)
      00:32
    • 4. Song. "Ah Belinda, I Am Press'd with Torment" (Dido)
      04:07
    • 5. Duet. "Grief Increases by Concealing" (Belinda, Dido)
      00:34
    • 6. Chorus. "When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State" (Chorus)
      00:15
    • 7. Duet. "Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring?" (Dido, Belinda)
      01:41
    • 8. Duet and Chorus. "Fear no Danger to Ensue" (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
      02:15
    • 9. Trio. "See Your Royal Guest Appears" (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)
      00:48
    • 10. Chorus. "Cupid Only Throws the Dart" (Chorus)
      00:35
    • 11. Duet. "If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake" (Aeneas, Belinda)
      01:30
    • 12. Chorus. "To the Hills and the Vales" (Chorus)
      01:03
    • 13. The Triumphing Dance
      01:26

  • Act II

    • 1. Prelude for the Witches. "Wayward Sisters, You That Fright" - Chorus. "Harm's Our Delight" (Sorceress, Chorus)
      02:11
    • 2. "The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate" (Sorceress) - "Ho ho ho" (Chorus)
      00:39
    • 3. Trio. "Ruin'd E're the Set of Sun?" - "Ho Ho Ho" (First Witch, Second Witch, Sorceress, Chorus)
      01:10
    • 4. Duet. "But Ere We This Perform" (First Witch, Second Witch)
      01:12
    • 5. Chorus. "In Our Deep Vaulted Cell" (Chorus)
      01:28
    • 6. Echo Dance of Furies
      01:18
    • 7. Ritornello
      00:43
    • 8. Song and Chorus. "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales" (Belinda, Chorus)
      03:15
    • 9. Song. "Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain" (Second Woman)
      02:18
    • 10. Duet. "Behold Upon My Bending Spear" (Aeneas, Dido)
      00:30
    • 11. Song and Chorus. "Haste, Haste to Town" (Belinda, Chorus)
      00:45
    • 12. Duet. "Stay Prince" (Spirit, Aeneas)
      02:19

  • Act III

    • 1. Song and Chorus. "Come Away" (Sailor, Chorus)
      01:36
    • 2. The Sailors' Dance
      00:50
    • 3. Duet. "See, See the Flags" (Sorceress, First Witch, Second Witch)
      01:03
    • 4. Song. "Our Next Motion" (Sorceress)
      00:42
    • 5. Chorus. "Destruction's Our Delight" (Chorus)
      00:32
    • 6. The Witches' Dance
      01:22
    • 7. Trio. "Your Counsel All Is Urged in Vain" (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
      03:27
    • 8. Chorus. "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire" (Chorus)
      00:51
    • 9. Song. "Thy Hand, Belinda" (Dido)
      00:57
    • 10. Song. "When I Am Laid in Earth" (Dido)
      04:00
    • 11. Chorus. "With Drooping Wings" (Chorus)
      02:16