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Purcell: Dido & Aeneas, King Arthur

Anne Sofie von Otter (Dido), Stephen Varcoe (Aeneas), Lynne Dawson (Belinda), Nigel Rogers (Sorceress/Sailor), Sarah Leonard (Second Woman), Kym Amps (Spirit), Carol Hall, Elisabeth Priday (Witches)

The English Concert and Choir, Trevor Pinnock

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas, King Arthur

Purcell: Dido & Aeneas, King Arthur

Anne Sofie von Otter (Dido), Stephen Varcoe (Aeneas), Lynne Dawson (Belinda), Nigel Rogers (Sorceress/Sailor), Sarah Leonard (Second Woman), Kym Amps (Spirit), Carol Hall, Elisabeth Priday (Witches)

The English Concert and Choir, Trevor Pinnock

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Work length53:34
Overture
Track length2:19
"Shake the cloud from off your brow" - "Banish sorrow, banish care"
Track length1:02
"Ah! Belinda, I am press'd" ... "When monarchs unite, how happy"
Track length4:43
"Whence could so much virtue spring?" - "Fear no danger"
Track length3:32
"See, your royal guest appears" - "Cupid only throws the dart"
Track length1:26
"If not for mine, for empire's sake" ... "To the hills and the vales"
Track length2:18
The Triumphing Dance
Track length1:11
Prelude for the Witches "Wayward sisters" ... "Ho, ho, ho"
Track length2:34
"Ruin'd ere the set of sun" ... "But ere we this perform"
Track length2:21
"In our deep vaulted cell"
Track length1:41
Echo Dance of Furies
Track length0:55
Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales"
Track length3:21
"Oft she visits"
Track length2:16
"Behold, upon my bending spear" - "Haste, haste to town"
Track length1:22
"Stay, Prince"
Track length2:40
Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"
Track length1:34
The Sailors' Dance "See the flags and streamers curling"
Track length1:42
"Our next motion" - "Destructions's our delight"
Track length1:13
The Witches' Dance
Track length1:11
"Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" - "Great minds against themselves conspire"
Track length5:02
"Thy Hand, Belinda...When I Am Laid In Earth"
Track length4:21
"With drooping wings"
Track length4:50
Purcell: King Arthur, Z628
Work length1:33:05
First Music: Chaconne
Track length3:23
Second Music: 1. Overture
Track length1:59
2. Air
Track length1:25
"Woden, first to thee" / "We have sacrific'd"
Track length2:21
"The white horse neigh'd aloud" / "To Woden thanks we render"
Track length1:21
The Lot is cast (soprano)
Track length0:42
Brave souls
Track length2:34
I call ye all (Tenor)
Track length2:08
'Come if you dare' (tenor)
Track length4:07
Hither this way (Philidel)
Track length2:08
Let not a Moon-born Elf (Grimbald)
Track length1:12
Hither, this way bend
Track length0:37
Come follow, follow, follow me (Philidel)
Track length2:18
How blest are Shepherds (Shepherd)
Track length4:33
Shepherd, shepherd, leave Decoying (Shepherdesses)
Track length1:55
Come, shepherds
Track length1:29
Second Act Tune: Air
Track length1:08
Prelude
Track length0:23
What ho (Cupid)
Track length1:07
What Power Art Thou (Genius)
Track length2:51
Thou Doting Fool (Cupid)
Track length0:53
Great Love, I know thee now
Track length1:01
No part of my Dominium (Cupid)
Track length1:10
Prelude
Track length0:50
See, See, We Assemble
Track length3:20
'Tis I that have warm'd ye (Cupid)
Track length2:11
"Sound a parley" / "'Tis Love, 'tis Love, 'tis Love that has warm'd us"
Track length4:24
Third Act Tune: Hornpipe
Track length0:45
Two Daughters (Syrens)
Track length3:05
Passacaglia - "How happy the lover" - Ritornello - "For love ev'ry creature" - "No joys are above" - "In vain are our graces" - "Then use the sweet blessing"
Track length6:07
Fourth Act Tune: Air
Track length0:39
Trumpet Tune
Track length0:53
Ye blust'ring brethren
Track length3:03
Symphony
Track length2:00
Round thy coast
Track length2:26
For Folded Flocks (Countertenor, Tenor and Bass)
Track length3:38
Your Hay it is Mow'd (Comus)
Track length2:36
Fairest Isle (Venus)
Track length4:48
Dialogue: You say, 'Tis Love (Soprano and bass)
Track length5:24
Trumpet tune
Track length0:40
"Saint George, the patron of our Isle" - "Our natives not alone appear"
Track length3:31
Purcell: Prophetess or The History of Dioclesian, Z627
Work length54:35
First Music
Track length2:32
Second Music
Track length1:38
Overture
Track length4:28
First Act Tune
Track length0:46
Prelude - "Great Diocles the Boar has kill'd" - "Sing Iô's! praise the thund'ring Jove"
Track length2:41
"Charon the peaceful Shade invites"
Track length1:47
Symphony
Track length1:37
"Let all mankind the pleasure share" - "Sound all your instruments"
Track length0:39
"Let all mankind the pleasure share"
Track length0:44
Prelude - "Let the soldiers rejoice" - "Rejoice, rejoice, with a general voice"
Track length1:58
Ritornello
Track length0:39
"To Mars let 'em raise" - "Rejoice, rejoice, with a general voice"
Track length1:14
Ritornello
Track length0:46
Symphony - "Since the toils and the hazards" - "All sing great Diocles' story"
Track length5:50
Dances Of Furies
Track length3:42
Second Act Tune
Track length0:52
Chaconne
Track length2:49
"When first I saw"
Track length2:24
The Chair Dance
Track length1:12
Prelude - "What shall I do"
Track length5:23
Third Act Tune
Track length0:43
Butterfly Dance
Track length2:12
Trumpet Tune
Track length0:41
"Sound, Fame, thy brazen trumpet sound!" - "Let all rehearse"
Track length5:37
Fourth Act Tune
Track length0:51
Country Dance
Track length0:50
Purcell: Dioclesian, Z.627 - The Masque
Work length43:02
Prelude - "Call the Nymphs"
Track length1:48
"Let the Graces and Pleasures repair"
Track length0:56
"Come, come away"
Track length1:07
Prelude - "Behold, O mightiest of Gods"
Track length3:30
Paspe
Track length0:50
"Oh the sweet delights of love!"
Track length1:50
"Let monarchs fight" - "Hear, mighty Love!"
Track length5:11
"Since from my dear Astraea's sight"
Track length3:14
"Make room, make room"
Track length0:44
"I'm here, I'm here, with my jolly crew" - "We'll rejoice as well as you" - "The mighty Jove"
Track length2:19
Dance Of Bacchanals
Track length1:27
"Still I'm wishing, still desiring"
Track length4:38
Canaries
Track length0:28
"Tell me why"
Track length5:40
Dance
Track length0:50
"All our days and our nights" - "Begone, begone, importunate reason"
Track length1:58
"Let us dance, let us sing"
Track length1:39
Dance
Track length0:40
"Triumph, triumph victorious Love" - "Then all rehearse"
Track length4:13
Purcell: Timon of Athens, Z632
Work length26:20
Overture
Track length5:42
No.1 Duet "Hark! How the songsters of the grove"
Track length1:49
No.2 Solo "Love in their little veins inspires"
Track length1:20
No.3 Trio "But ah! how much are our delights"
Track length1:25
Nos.4&5 Solo&Chorus "Hence with your trifling deity" - "But over us no griefs prevail"
Track length2:34
Nos.6&7 Solo&Chorus "Come all, come all to me" - "Who can resist such mighty charms?"
Track length3:03
No.8 Solo "Return, revolting rebels"
Track length2:21
No.9 Solo "The cares of lovers"
Track length1:57
No.10 Solo "Love quickly is pall'd"
Track length1:21
No.11&12 Duet&Chorus "Come, let us agree"
Track length2:22
Curtain Tune On A Ground
Track length2:26
Purcell: Come ye sons of art (Ode for Queen Mary's birthday, 1694), Z 323
Work length23:55
Overture
Track length3:44
Come, ye sons of art, away
Track length1:41
Sound the trumpet, sound
Track length2:27
Come, ye sons of art
Track length1:11
Strike the viol, touch the lute
Track length4:43
The day that such a blessing gave
Track length2:51
Bid the Virtues, bid the Graces
Track length2:55
These are the sacred charms
Track length1:40
See Nature, rejoicing
Track length2:43
Purcell: Welcome to all the pleasures (1683) Ode for St. Cecilia's Day
Work length15:33
Overture
Track length1:49
Welcome to all the pleasures
Track length1:49
"Here the deities approve" - "While joys celestial"
Track length5:19
"Then lift up your voices" - "The pow'r shall divert us a pleasanter way"
Track length1:43
Beauty, thou scene of love
Track length3:40
In a consort of voices
Track length1:13
Purcell: Of old, when heroes thought it base (The Yorkshire Feast Song, 1690)
Work length28:35
Symphony
Track length1:17
"Of old, when heroes thought it base" - "Brigantium, honour'd with a race divine"
Track length3:26
The bashful Thames, for beauty so renowned
Track length3:37
The pale and the purple rose
Track length2:35
And in each track of glory since
Track length3:28
Symphony
Track length1:16
And now when the renown'd Nassau
Track length1:55
They did no storms, nor threat'nings fear
Track length2:08
So when the glitt'ring Queen of Night
Track length3:35
Let music join
Track length1:16
Sound, trumpets, sound!
Track length2:14
Sound all to him
Track length1:48
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