Purcell: Dido & Aeneas
- Henry Purcell
- Dido & Aeneas
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment - René Jacobs, dir.
Harmonia Mundi HMC 90 1683 [CD]
Harmonia Mundi "René Jacobs Opera Edition"
HMX 290 1683 [CD]
Contents:
Henry Purcell
Dido & Aeneas
- Overture
Act I
- Belinda: "Shake the cloud"
- Dido: "Ah! Belinda, I am prest"
- Belinda: "Grief increase by concealing"
- Chorus: "When monarchs unite"
- Dido: "Whence could so much virtue spring?"
- Belinda, Second Woman: "Fear no danger to ensue"
- Belinda: "See, your Royal Guest appears"
- Chorus: "Cupid only throws the dart"
- Aeneas: "If not for mine"
- Belinda: "Pursue thy conquest"
- Chorus: "To the hills and the vales"
- The Triumphing Dance
ACT II
- Prelude for the Witches
- Chorus: "Harm's our delight"
- Sorceress: "The Queen of Carthage"
- Chorus: "Ho ho ho, ho ho ho!"
- Two Witches: "But ere we this perform"
- Chorus: "In our deep vaulted cell"
- Echo Dance of Furies
- Ritornelle
- Belinda: "Thanks to these lovesome vales"
- Second Woman: "Oft she visits this lov'd moutain"
- Aeneas: "Behold, upon my bending spear"
- Belinda: "Haste, haste to town"
- Spirit: "Stay, Prince and hear great Jove's command"
- Chorus: "Then since our Charmes have Sped"
- The Grove's Dance
ACT III
- Prelude
- Chorus: "Come away, fellow sailors"
- Sorceress: "See the flags and streamers curling"
- Sorceress: "Our next Motion"
- Chorus: "Destruction's our delight"
- The Witches' Dance
- Dido: "Your counsel all is urged in vain"
- Chorus: "Great minds against themselves conspire"
- Dido: "Thy hand, Belinda"
- Dido: "When I am laid in earth"
- Chorus: "With dropping wings ye Cupids come"
Playing time: 59' 33"
Performers:
Lynne Dawson (soprano - Dido), Rosemary Joshua (soprano - Belinda),
Gerald Finley (baritone - Aeneas)
Clare College Chapel Choir
Thimoty Brown (choirsmaster)
Orchestra of the Age of Enlightnement
René Jacobs, dir
Recording site and date:
Unknown [10/1998]
Rel.: 2001 (HMC), 2003 (HMX)
Excerpts:
[37]-[38] Harmonia Mundi "Century"
HMX 290 8174 L'Angleterre baroque - Baroque England / Un
siècle de musique anglaise (1650-1760) - Masks, Anthems
& Semi-operas
Reviewed in:
Diapason (#-p.):
Early Music America (Vol./#-p.):
Fanfare (Vol./#-p.):
Goldberg (y., #-p.):
Gramophone (Vol./#-p.):
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