Title:
Dido and Aeneas / Henry Purcell ; [libretto, Nahum Tate].
Author:
Purcell, Henry, 1659-1695.
Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.
Norman, Jessye.
Allen, Thomas, 1944-
McLaughlin, Marie, 1954-
Kern, Patricia.
Jones, Della.
Gale, Elizabeth, 1948-
Power, Patrick, 1947-
Ragin, Derek Lee.
Leppard, Raymond.
Virgil. Aeneis.
English Chamber Orchestra.
Publication Information:
[Baarn, the Netherlands] : Philips, ℗1986.
Call Number:
B PURC DA V92
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Series:
Digital classics
Digital classics.
Physical Description:
1 audio disc (58 min., 10 sec.) : digital, stereo ; 4 3/4 in.
General Note:
Opera in 3 acts; libretto by Nahum Tate, based on Virgil's Aeneid.
Compact disc, digital recording.
Duration: 58:23.
Issued also as analog disc (416 299-1)--and cassette (416 299-4).
Insert in container (44 p.)--includes program notes by Clifford Bartlett in English with German and Italian translations, and by Claude Hermann in French; and libretto with French, German, and Italian translations.
Contents:
"Dido and Aeneas." "Shake the cloud from off your brow" ; "Ah! Belinda, I am prest" ; "Whence could so much virtue spring?" ; "Fear no danger" ; "See, your Royal Guest appears" ; "If not for mine" ; "To the hills and the vales" ; The triumphing dance -- Prelude for the Witches ; "Wayward sisters" ; "But ere we this perform" ; "In our deep vaulted cell" ; Echo dance of the Furies ; "Thanks to these lonesome vales" ; "Oft she visits" ; "Behold, upon my bending spear" ; "Stay, Prince" ; "Jove's commands shall be obey'd" -- "Come away, fellow sailors" ; The sailors' dance ; "See the flags" ; "Destruction's our delight" ; The Witches' dance -- "Your counsel all is urged in vain" ; "But death, alas!" ; "Thy hand, Belinda" ; "When I am laid in earth" ; "With drooping wings."
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