Henry Purcell : Dido and Aeneas

Interpreti: Susan Graham (mezosoprán) / Ian Bostridge (tenor) / Camilla Tilling (soprán) / Felicity Palmer (mezosoprán) / David Daniels (countertenor) / European Voices
Le Concert d'Astrée / Emmanuelle Haïm (dirigent)

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CD1
Overture
ACT 1: Scene: The Palast
Shake the Clouds from off your Brow (Belinda)
Banish Sorrow, banish care (Chorus)
Ah! Belinda, I am press''d with torment (Diddo)
Grief increases 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, your Royal Guest appears (Belinda-Aeneas-Dido)
Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus)
If not for mine, for Empire''s sake (Aeneas-Belinda)
To the Hills and the Vales (Chorus)
The Triumphing Dance
ACT 2,
Scene 1:The Cave
Wayward sisters, you that fright (Sorceress)/Harm''s our Delight (Chorus)
The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress)/Ho Ho Ho (Chorus)
Ruin''d ere the set of sun? (Two Witches-Sorceress)/Ho Ho Ho (Chorus)
But ere we this perform (Two Witches)
In our deep vaulted cell (Echo Chorus)
Echo Dance of Furies
Scene 2: The Grove
Ritornelle
Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda-Chorus)
Oft she visits this lone mountain (Second Woman)
Behold, upon my bending spear (Aeneas-Dido)
Haste, haste to town (Belinda-Chorus)
Stay, Prince, and hear Great Jove''s Command (Spirit-Aeneas)
ACT 3
Scene 1: The Ships
Come away fellow Sailors (First Sailor-Chorus)
The Sailors'' Dance
See the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress-Two Witches)
See the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress-Two Witches)
Destruction''s our delight (Chorus)
The Witches'' Dance
Scene 2
Your Counsel all is urg''d in vain (Dido-Belinda-Aeneas)
Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)
Thy hand Belinda; Darkness shades me (Dido)
When I am laid in earth (Dido)
With drooping wings (Chorus)

CD2 - CD-ROM
Libretto
Synopsis