Title:
Dido and Aeneas / Henry Purcell.
Author:
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695, composer.
Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715, librettist.
Otter, Anne Sofie von, singer.
Dawson, Lynne, singer.
Varcoe, Stephen, singer.
Rogers, Nigel, 1935- singer.
Pinnock, Trevor, conductor, instrumentalist.
English Concert (Musical group), instrumentalist.
English Concert (Musical group). Choir, singer.
Publication Information:
Hamburg, Germany : Archiv Produktion, [1989]
℗1989
Call Number:
B PURC DAA V42
Physical Description:
1 audio disc (53 min., 56 sec.) : CD audio, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Opera in 3 acts.
Libretto by Nahum Tate
Title from disc label.
Program notes by Curtis Price and libretto, both in English with French, German and Italian translations (76 pages : facsimiles, portraits) inserted in container.
Contents:
1: Overture / Purcell (2:19) -- 2: Shake the cloud from off your brow / Purcell (2:14) -- 3.1: Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment / Purcell (0:00) -- 3.2: Grief increases by councealing / Purcell (3:54) -- 3.3: When Monarchs unite, how happy their state / Purcell (4:28) -- 4.1: Whence could so much virtue spring / Purcell (3:32) -- 4.2: Fear no danger to ensue / Purcell (1:59) -- 5.1: See your royal guest appears / Purcell (1:27) -- 5.2: Cupid only throws the dart / Purcell (0:49) -- 6.1: If not for mine, for empire's sake / Purcell (2:18) -- 6.2: Pursue thy conquest, Love / Purcell (0:23) -- 6.3: To the hills and the vales, to the rocks and the mountain / Purcell (1:11) -- 7: The Triumphing Dance / Purcell (1:11) -- 8.1: Prelude for the Witches " Wayward Sisters, yo uthat fright" / Purcell (2:33) -- 8.2: Harm's our delight an mischief al our skill / Purcell (1:43) -- 8.3: The Queen of Carthage, who we hate / Purcell (1:59) -- 8.4: Ho, ho, ho / Purcell (2:23) -- 9.1: Ruin'd ere the set of sun / Purcell (2:22) -- 9.2: Ho, ho, ho / Purcell (0:59) -- 9.3: But ere we this perform / Purcell (1:09) -- 10: In our deep-vaulted cell the charm we'll prepare / Purcell (1:41) -- 11: Echo Dance of Furies / Purcell (0:54) -- 12.1: Ritornelle / Purcell (3:19) -- 12.2: Thanks to these lonesome vales / Purcell (0:42) -- 13: Oft she visits this lone mountain / Purcell (2:17) -- 14.1: Behold, upon my bending spear / Purcell (1:22) -- 14.2: Haste, haste to town / Purcell (0:34) -- 15: Stay, Prince, and hear great love's command / Purcell (2:40) -- 16: Prelude -- Come away, fellow sailers, your anchors be weighing / Purcell (1:33) -- 17.1: The Sailor's Dance / Purcell (1:43) -- 17.2: See the flags and streamers curling / Purcell (0:42) -- 18.1: Our next motion / Purcell (1:13) -- 18.2: Destruction's our delight / Purcell (0:36) -- 19: The Witches' Dance / Purcell (1:12) -- 20.1: Your counsel all is urg'd in vain / Purcell (5:02) -- 20.2: Great minds against themselves conspire / Purcell (3:56) -- 21.1: Thy hand, Belinda, darkness shades me / Purcell (4:22) -- 21.2: When I am laid in earth / Purcell (1:06) -- 22: With Drooping wings ye Cupids come / Purcell (4:54).
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