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Special offer. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Tatiana Troyanos (Dido), Sheila Armstrong (Belinda), Barry McDaniel (Aeneas), Patricia Johnson (Sorceress), Paul Esswood (Spirit)

Sir Charles Mackerras

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Special offer. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Tatiana Troyanos (Dido), Sheila Armstrong (Belinda), Barry McDaniel (Aeneas), Patricia Johnson (Sorceress), Paul Esswood (Spirit)

Sir Charles Mackerras

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Excerpt,Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Work length2:38
  • Kammerorchester des Norddeutschen Rundfunks, Hamburg
  • Sir Charles Mackerras
  • Recorded: 1967-10-04
  • Recording Venue: Friedrich-Ebert-Halle, Hamburg
Overture
Track length2:38
Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 1
Work length16:05
"Shake the cloud from off your brow"
Track length1:13
"Ah! Belinda" / "Grief increases" / "When monarchs unite"
Track length5:26
"Whence could so much virtue spring?" - "Fear no danger"
Track length3:51
"See, your royal guest appears" / "Cupid only throws.."
Track length1:28
"If not for mine, for empire's sake" ... "To the hills and the vales"
Track length3:05
The Triumphing Dance
Track length1:02
Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 2
Work length20:33
"Prelude for..." / "Harms our..." / "The Queen" / "Ho,ho,ho"
Track length2:38
"Ruin'd ere the set of sun" ... "But ere we this perform"
Track length2:43
"In our deep vaulted cell"
Track length1:40
Echo Dance Of Furies
Track length1:15
Ritornelle - "Thanks to these lonesome vales" - Gitter Ground a Dance
Track length3:23
"Oft she visits"
Track length2:45
"Behold, upon my bending spear" / "Haste, haste to town"
Track length1:21
"Stay, Prince"
Track length3:01
"Then since our charms have sped" - "A Dance" - The Groves Dance
Track length1:47
Purcell: Dido And Aeneas, Z.626 / Act 3
Work length23:22
Prelude - "Come away, fellow sailors"
Track length1:36
The Sailors' Dance "See the flags and streamers curling"
Track length1:53
"Our next motion" - "Destructions's our delight"
Track length1:20
The Witches' Dance
Track length1:23
"Your counsel all is urg'd in vain" - "Great minds against themselves conspire"
Track length5:22
"Thy hand, Belinda" / "When I am laid in earth"
Track length5:47
"With drooping wings..." - Cupids´ Dance
Track length6:01
Purcell: Hail! Bright Cecilia (Ode for St Cecilia's Day 1692), Z328
Work length55:08
Symphony
Track length11:50
Hail, bright Cecilia! (I)
Track length0:28
Hail, bright Cecilia! (II)
Track length3:26
Hark, hark, each tree its silence breaks
Track length4:54
Tis Nature's voice
Track length3:43
Soul of the world
Track length2:56
Thou tun'st this world below, the spheres above
Track length3:37
With that sublime celestial lay
Track length2:52
Wondrous machine!
Track length3:21
The airy violin
Track length1:38
In vain the am'rous flute and soft guitar
Track length5:39
The fife, and all the harmony of war
Track length3:06
Let these amongst themselves contest
Track length3:16
Hail, bright Cecilia! (III)
Track length2:08
With rapture of delight
Track length0:56
Hail, bright Cecilia! (IV)
Track length1:18
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