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Dido and Aeneas
Dido and Aeneas
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- Creator
- Henry Purcell ; [libretto, Nahum Tate]
- Format
- Sound Recordings
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Germany : Teldec, [1993]
- Indianapolis, Ind. : Mfd. for BMG Direct
- ℗1993
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- 1 audio disc (58 min., 13 sec.) : digital, CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in
- digital optical stereo
- audio file CD audio
- OCLC
- ocm29192364
- Credits
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- Della Jones (Dido) ; Donna Deam (Belinda) ; Susan Bickley (Sorceress) ; Peter Harvey (Aeneas) ; St James's Singers ; St James's Baroque Players ; Ivor Bolton, conductor
- Title from disc label.
- Opera in 3 acts.
- Based on: Aeneid / Virgil.
- Program notes by Bruce Wood and Andrew Pinnock and libretto in English inserted in container.
- Forms part of: Kin Lop Tse Collection.
- Recorded 1989 June-July at Petersham Church, Richmond.
- Sung in English.
- Overture (2:10) -- Act one : The palace. Belinda : Shake the cloud from off your brow - Chorus : Banish sorrow (1:07) ; Dido : Ah! Belinda - Ritornelle (3:35) ; Belinda : Grief increases by concealing - Chorus : When monarchs unite - Dido : Whence could so much virture spring (2:36) ; Belinda, 2nd woman & chorus : Fear no danger (2:22) ; Belinda : See, your royal guest appears - Chorus : Cupid only throws the dart - Aeneas : If not for mine - Belinda : Pursue thy conquest, Love (2:28) ; A dance gittars chacony (2:03) ; Chorus : To the hills and the vales (1:08) ; The triumphing dance (1:13) -- Act two, Scene one : The cave. Prelude - Sorceress : Wayward sisters - Chorus : Harm's our delight (2:08) ; Sorceress : The Queen of Carthage - Chorus : Ho ho ho - Witch : Ruin'd ere the set of sun? - Chorus : Ho ho ho (1:49) ; Witches : But ere we this perform (1:12) ; Chorus : In our deep vaulted cell (1:29) ; Echo dance of furies (0:59) -- Act two, Scene two. Ritornelle (0:48) ; Belinda & chorus : Thanks to these lonesome vales (3:03) ; Gitter ground a dance (1:40) ; 2nd woman : Oft she visits - Ritornelle Aeneas : Behold, upon my bending spear - Belinda & chursu : Haste, haste to town (1:20) ; Spirit of the sorceress : Stay, Prince (2:37) -- Act three, Scene one : The ships. Prelude - Sailor & chorus : Come away, fellow sailors - The sailor's dance (2:16) ; Sorceress : See the flags and streamers curling - Our next motion - Chorus : Destruction's our delight - The witches' dance (3:20) -- Act three, Scene two : The palace. Dido : Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (3:55) ; Chorus : Great mainds against themselves conspire (0:57) ; Dido : Thy hand, Belinda - Dido : When I am laid (4:26) ; Chorus : With drooping wings - Cupids dance (5:11)