Dido & Aeneas / Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
John Eliot Gardiner · English Baroque Soloists · Monteverdi Choir · Ruth Holton · Carolyn Watkinson · Michael Chance
Dido & Aeneas / Ode for St. Cecilia's Day (1993), CD, on Philips Digital Classics. Music by Henry Purcell, performed by John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir, Ruth Holton; 17 tracks.
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Ode for St Cecilia's Day: Here the deities approve
Henry Purcell - Ode for St. Cecilia's Day "Welcome to All the Pleasures", Z. 339: Here the deities approve / While joys celestial
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Ode for St Cecilia's Day: While joys celestial their bright souls invade
Henry Purcell - Ode for St. Cecilia's Day "Welcome to All the Pleasures", Z. 339: Here the deities approve / While joys celestial
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: "Shake the cloud from off your brow"
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 1. Aria “Shake the cloud from off your brow” (Belinda) – “Banish sorrow, banish care” (Chorus)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: "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)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: "Whence could so much virtue spring?" - "Fear no danger"
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 5. Recitative “Whence could so much virtue spring?” (Dido, Belinda, Second Woman)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: "See, your Royal Guest appears" - "If not for mine"
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 7. Recitative “See, your royal guest appears” (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Dido and Aeneas, Act 1: "To the hills and the vales" - The Triumphing Dance
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act I, 11. “To the hills and the vales” (Chorus)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: Prelude for the Witches - "Wayward sisters"
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I, 13. Prelude for the Witches – “Wayward sisters” (Sorceress, First Witch)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: "In our deep vaulted cell" - Echo Dance of the Furies
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene I, 20. “In our deep vaulted cell” (Chorus)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas: Act II. Ritornelle / "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: "Oft she visits"
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II, 24. Aria “Oft she visits this lone mountain” (Second Woman) / Ritornelle
Dido and Aeneas, Act 2: "Behold, upon my bending spear"
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act II, Scene II, 25. Recitative “Behold, upon my bending spear” (Aeneas, Dido)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors" - Sailor's Dance
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 28. Prelude “Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing” (First Sailor, Chorus)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir
Dido and Aeneas, Act 3: "But death, alas!"
Henry Purcell - Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Act III, 34. Recitative “But death, alas! I cannot shun” (Dido)
John Eliot Gardiner, English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir