Henry Purcell Anne Sofie Von Otter Stephen Varcoe .. - Dido & Aeneas

TRACKS

1 Overture

Act I

2 "Shake The Cloud From Off Your Brow" (Belinda) / "Banish Sorrow, Banish Care" (Chorus)

3.1 "Ah! Belinda, I Am Press'd With Tornment" (Dido)

3.2 "Grief Increases By Concealing..." (Belinda, Dido)

3.3 "When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State" (Chorus)

4.1 "Whence Could So Much Virtue Spring" (Dido, Belinda)

4.2 "Fear No Danger To Ensue" (Belinda, Second Woman; Chorus)

5.1 "See, Your Royal Guest Appears" (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)

5.2 "Cupid Only Throws The Dart" (Chorus)

6.1 "If Not For Mine, For Empire's Sake" (Aeneas)

6.2 "Pursue Thy Conquest, Love" (Belinda)

6.3 "To The Hills And The Vales, To The Rocks And The Mountains" (Chorus)

7 The Triumphing Dance

Act II

8.1 Prelude For The Witches / "Wayward Sisters, You That Fright" (Sorceress, First Witch)

8.2 "Harm's Our Delight And Mischief All Our Skill" (Chorus)

8.3 "The Queen Of Carthage, Whom We Hate" (Sorceress)

8.4 "Ho, Ho, Ho" (Chorus)

9.1 "Ruin'd Ere The Set Of Sun" (Witches, Sorceress)

9.2 "Ho, Ho, Ho" (Chorus)

9.3 "But Ere We This Perform" (Witches)

10 "In Our Deep-vaulted Cell The Charm We'll Prepare" (Chorus)

11 Echo Dance Of Furies (Scene The Grove)

12.1 Ritornelle

12.2 "Thanks To These Lonesome Vales" (Belinda; Chorus)

13 "Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain" (Second Woman) / Ritornelle

14.1 "Behold, Upon My Bending Spear" (Aeneas, Dido)

14.2 "Haste, Haste To Town" (Belinda; Chorus)

15 "Stay, Prince, And Hear Great Jove's Command" (Spirit, Aeneas)

Act III

16 Prelude / "Come Away, Fellow Sailors, Your Anchors Be Weighing" (First Sailor; Chorus)

17.1 The Sailor's Dance

17.2 "See The Flags And Streamers Curling" (Sorceress; Witches)

18.1 "Our Nest Motion" (Sorceress)

18.2 "Destruction's Our Delight" (Chorus)

19 The Witche's Dance [Scene The Palace]

20.1 "Your Counsel All Is Urg'd In Vain" (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)

20.2 "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire" (Chorus)

21.1 "Thy Hand, Belinda, Darkness Shades Me" (Dido)

21.2 "When I Am Laid In Earth" (Dido)

22 "With Drooping Wings Ye Cupids Come" (Chorus)

NOTE

CD and booklet comes in a slipcase.

Henry Purcell • Anne Sofie Von Otter • Stephen Varcoe • Lynne Dawson • Nigel Rogers (2) - The English Concert* Choir*, Trevor Pinnock