Kym Amps, a noble Dido of such great presence, passionate yet grave....Sara Connolly's Sorceress an impossing creation....Kym Amps and Sara Connolly would be bargains at full price.

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Kym Amps (soprano), David van Asch (bass), Anna Crookes (soprano)

Scholars Baroque Ensemble

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Kym Amps, a noble Dido of such great presence, passionate yet grave....Sara Connolly's Sorceress an impossing creation....Kym Amps and Sara Connolly would be bargains at full price.

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Label: Naxos
Catalogue number: 8553108
Length: 57 minutes
Genre:
- Opera

Contents and tracklist

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Work length57:23

Kym Amps (soprano), Anna Crookes (soprano), David van Asch (bass)
Scholars Baroque Ensemble

Overture

Track length1:56

Act I: Belinda, Chorus: Shake the cloud from off your brow

Track length1:04

Act I: Dido: Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment

Track length3:49

Act I: Belinda, Dido: Grief increases by concealing

Track length0:36

Act I: Chorus: When monarchs unite how happy their state

Track length0:15

Act I: Dido, Belinda: Whence could so much virtue spring?

Track length1:59

Act I: Belinda, 2nd Woman and Chorus: Fear no danger to ensue

Track length1:39

Act I: Belinda, Aeneas, Dido: See, your Royal guest appears

Track length0:54

Act I: Chorus: Cupid only throws the dart

Track length0:31

Act I: Aeneas, Belinda: If not for mine, for Empire's sake

Track length1:15

Act I: Guitars' Chaconne

Track length0:39

Act I: Chorus: To the hills and the vales

Track length1:04

Act I: The Triumphing Dance

Track length1:27

Act II: Prelude for the Witches (Sorceress and 1st Witch): Wayward sisters

Track length1:50

Act II: Chorus: Harm's our delight

Track length0:12

Act II: Sorceress: The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate

Track length0:31

Act II: Chorus: Ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho!

Track length0:11

Act II: 1st and 2nd Witches, Sorceress: Ruin'd ere the set of sun?

Track length1:07

Act II: Chorus: Ho Ho Ho, Ho Ho Ho!

Track length0:10

Act II: Sailors' Dance

Track length0:34

Act II: 1st and 2nd Witches: But, ere we this perform

Track length1:08

Act II: Chorus: In our deep vaulted cell

Track length1:29

Act II: Echo Dance of Furies

Track length1:21

Act II: Ritornelle

Track length0:45

Act II: Belinda, Chorus: Thanks to these lonesome vales

Track length3:07

Act II: Guitar Dance, 2nd Woman: Oft she visits this lone mountain

Track length2:28

Act II: Aeneas, Dido: Behold, upon my bended spear

Track length0:37

Act II: Belinda, Chorus: Haste to town

Track length0:46

Act II: Spirit, Aeneas: Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove's command

Track length2:52

Act II: Ritornelle

Track length0:59

Act III: 1st Sailor and Chorus: Come away, fellow sailors

Track length1:32

Act III: The Sailor's Dance

Track length0:47

Act III: Sorceress, 1st and 2nd Witches: See, the flags and streamers curling

Track length1:02

Act III: Sorceress: Our next motion

Track length0:40

Act III: Chorus: Destruction's our delight

Track length0:31

Act III: The Witches' Dance

Track length1:15

Act III: Belinda, Aeneas: Your counsel all is urg'd in vain

Track length4:01

Act III: Chorus: Great minds against themselves conspire

Track length0:54

Act III: Dido: Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me

Track length0:58

Act III: Dido: When I am laid in earth

Track length3:41

Act III: Chorus: With drooping wings ye cupids come

Track length4:47

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