Dido and Aeneas
1994 · Music · Purcell, Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Lisa Saffer, Paul Elliott, Michael Dean, The Choir of Clare College, Cambridge, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, Nicholas McGegan
Lorraine Hunt Lieberson
Tracklist
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Shake the cloud from off your brow” (Belinda) – “Banish sorrow, banish care” (Chorus)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment” (Dido)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Grief increases by concealing” (Belinda, Dido, Second Woman) - “When monarchs unite” (Chorus)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Fear no danger to ensue” (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “See, your royal guest appears” (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) – “Cupid only throws the dart” (Chorus)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “Pursue thy conquest, love” (Belinda)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I. “To the hills and the vales” (Chorus) – The Triumphing Dance
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I. Prelude for the Witches – “Wayward sisters” (Sorceress, First Witch) – “Harm’s our delight” (Witches chorus)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I. “Ruin’d ere the set of sun?” (Two Witches, Sorceress)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I. “But ere we this perform” (Two Witches)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I. “In our deep vaulted cell” (Chorus) – Echo Dance of Furies
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. Ritornelle
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Thanks to these lonesome vales” (Belinda, Chorus)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Oft she visits this lov’d mountain” (Second Woman)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Behold, upon my bending spear” (Aeneas, Dido)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Haste, haste to town” (Belinda, Chorus)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. “Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command” (Spirit, Aeneas)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II. Ritornelle
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. Prelude – “Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing” (First Sailor, Chorus)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. The Sailors’ Dance
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. “See, the flags and streamers curling” (Sorceress, Witches)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. “Our next motion” (Sorceress) – “Destruction’s our delight” (Chorus)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene I. The Witches’ Dance
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “Your counsel all is urg’d in vain” (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “Great minds against themselves conspire” (Chorus)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me” (Dido) – “When I am laid in earth” (Dido)
- Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, Scene II. “With drooping wings ye cupids come” (Chorus)
- Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: I. Overture
- Music for “The Gordian Knot Unty’d”: II. Air
- Label
- harmonia mundi
- Released
- 1994
- Runtime
- 1h