Dido and Aeneas and Music for Plays & Masques
Dido and Aeneas and Music for Plays & Masques (1996), CD, on Telarc Digital. Music by Henry Purcell, performed by Martin Pearlman, Nancy Maultsby, Russell Braun; 29 tracks.
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Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Shake the cloud from off your brow” / “Banish sorrow”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 1. Aria “Shake the cloud from off your brow” (Belinda) – “Banish sorrow, banish care” (Chorus)
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 2. “Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment” (Dido)
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Grief increases by concealing” / “When monarchs unite”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 3. Recitative “Grief increases by concealing” (Belinda, Dido, Second Woman)
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Whence could so much virtue spring”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 5. Recitative “Whence could so much virtue spring?” (Dido, Belinda, Second Woman)
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “Fear no danger to ensue”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 6. “Fear no danger to ensue” (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus)
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “See your royal guest appears” / “Cupid only throws the dart”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 8. “Cupid only throws the dart” (Chorus)
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “If not for mine, for empire’s sake”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 10. Aria “Pursue thy conquest, love” (Belinda)
Dido and Aeneas: Act I. The Palace: “To the hills and the vales” / The Triumphing Dance
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 12. The Triumphing Dance
Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: Prelude for the Witches / “Wayward sisters”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I, 14. “Harm’s our delight” (Witches chorus)
Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “Ruin’d ere the set of sun?”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I, 18. “Ho ho ho!” (Chorus)
Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “But ere we this perform”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I, 19. “But ere we this perform” (Two Witches)
Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene I. The Cave: “In our deep vaulted cell” / Echo Dance of the Furies
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I, 21. Echo Dance of Furies
Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: Ritornelle / “Thanks to these lonesome vales”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II, 22. Ritornelle
Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: “Oft she visits this lone mountain”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II, 24. Aria “Oft she visits this lone mountain” (Second Woman) / Ritornelle
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II, 26. Aria and Chorus “Haste, haste to town” (Belinda, Chorus)
Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: “Stay, Prince, and hear”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II, 27. Recitative “Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove’s command” (Spirit, Aeneas)
Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Scene II. The Grove: Ritornelle
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II, 22. Ritornelle
Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: “See the flags and streamers curling”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 30. Recitative “See, the flags and streamers curling” (Sorceress, Witches)
Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: “Our next motion” / “Destruction’s our delight”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III. Aria “Our next motion” (Sorceress)
Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene I. The Ships: The Witches’ Dance
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 32. The Witches’ Dance
Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “Your counsel all is urged in vain”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 33. Recitative “Your counsel all is urg’d in vain” (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 35. “Great minds against themselves conspire” (Chorus)
Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “Thy hand Belinda” / “When I am laid in earth”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 36. Recitative “Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me” (Dido)
Dido and Aeneas: Act III. Scene II. The Palace: “With drooping wings ye Cupids come”
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 38. “With drooping wings” (Chorus)