Purcell: Dido & Aeneas

Tracklisting

Disc 1

Side 1

• 1. Dido and Aeneas, Overture
• 2. ACT I · Scene: The Palace, Shake the cloud from off your brow
• 3. Ah! Belinda, I am pressed with torment
• 4. Grief increases by concealing
• 5. When monarchs unite, how happy their state
• 6. Whence could so much virtue spring?
• 7. Fear no danger to ensue
• 8. Dance [Fear no danger to ensue]
• 9. See, see, your royal guest appears
• 10. Cupid only throws the dart
• 11. If not for mine, for empire's sake
• 12. Pursue thy conquest, Love
• 13. Dance: 'Gittars Chacony'
• 14. To the hills and the vales
• 15. The Triumphing Dance
• 16. ACT II · Scene: The Cave, Prelude for the Witches ?Wayward sisters, you that fright
• 17. Harm's our delight
• 18. The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate
• 19. Ho ho ho!
• 20. Ruined ere the set of sun?
• 21. Ho ho ho!
• 22. But ere we this perform
• 23. In our deep vaulted cell
• 24. Echo Dance of Furies
• 25. Ritornelle
• 26. Thanks to these lonesome vales
• 27. Dance: 'Gitter Ground'; Oft she visits this lone mountain; A Dance to entertain Aeneas by Dido's women
• 28. Behold, upon my bending spear
• 29. Haste, haste to town!
• 30. Stay, Prince, and hear great Jove's command
• 31. [Dance: Hornpipe from The Married Beau] ?
• 32. ACT III · Scene: The Ships, Prelude - Come away, fellow sailors
• 33. The Sailors' Dance
• 34. See the flags and streamers curling
• 35. Our next motion
• 36. Destruction our delight
• 37. The Witches' Dance
• 38. Your counsel all is urg'd in vain
• 39. Great minds against themselves conspire
• 40. Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me
• 41. When I am laid in earth
• 42. With drooping wings
• 43. Cupids' Dance
• 44. Pavan in G minor z752 for three violins and continuo