Purcell: Dido And Aeneas
Martin Pearlman & Boston Baroque
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CAT # 80424-25
1. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Overture 1:50 2. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Belinda) - Shake the cloud from off your brow / (Chorus) - Banish sorrow 1:05 3. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Dido) - Ah! Belinda, I am prest with torment 3:35 4. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Belinda, Dido) - Grief increases by concealing / (Chorus) - When monarchs 5. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Dido, Belinda) - Whence could so much virtue spring 1:46 6. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Belinda, Second Woman, Chorus) - Fear no danger to ensue 1:31 7. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) - See your royal guest appears / (Chorus) - Cupid 1:27 8. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Aeneas, Dido) - If not for mine, for empire's sake 1:12 9. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Chorus) - To the hills and the vales / The Triumphing Dance 2:06 10. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Prelude for the Witches / (Sorceress, First witch, Chorus) - Wayward siste 2:37 11. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Two witches, Sorceress, First witch, Chorus) - Ruin'd ere the set of sun? 1:11 12. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Two witches) - But ere we this perform 1:13 13. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Chorus in the manner of an echo) -In our deep vaulted cell / Echo Dance o 2:19 14. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Ritornelle / (Belinda, Chorus) - Thanks to these lonesome vales 3:01 15. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Second woman) - Oft she visits this lone mountain 1:34 16. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Aeneas, Dido) - Behold, upon my bending spear / (Belinda, Chorus) Haste, 1:20 17. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Spirit, Aeneas) - Stay, Prince, and hear 2:24 18. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Ritornelle 19. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Prelude / (Sailor, Chorus) - Come away, fellow sailors / The Sailor's Danc 2:17 20. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Sorceress, Witches) - See the flags and streamers curling 21. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Sorceress) - Our next motion / (Chorus) - Destruction's our delight 1:10 22. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: The Witches' Dance 1:09 23. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas) - Your counsel all is urged in vain 3:20 24. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Dido) - But death, alas, I cannot shun / (Chorus) - Great minds against t 1:18 25. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Dido) - Thy hand Belinda / When I am laid in earth 4:09 26. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: (Chorus) - With drooping wings ye Cupids come 4:27 27. Purcell: Overture (from Abdelazer, or The Moor's Revenge) 2:59 28. Purcell: Rondeau (Abdelazer) 1:21 29. Purcell: Air (Abdelazer) 1:19 30. Purcell: Minuet (The Gordian Knot Unty'd) 1:31 31. Purcell: Air (The Gordian Knot Unty'd) 1:12 32. Purcell: Curtain Tune on a Ground (Timon of Athens) 1:57 33. Purcell: Rondeau (The Fairy Queen) 1:27 34. Purcell: Hornpipe (The Fairy Queen) 35. Purcell: Overture (The Fairy Queen) 1:26 36. Purcell: Dance for the Fairies (The Fairy Queen) 1:04 37. Purcell: Chaconne (The Fairy Queen) 2:36 38. Purcell: Hornpipe on a Ground (The Married Beau) 1:29
Following its highly acclaimed Telarc release of Robert Levin's completion of the Mozart Requiem, the Boston Baroque orchestra and chamber chorus are here presented in Purcell's operatic masterwork Dido & Aeneas.
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