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Special offer. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Eilidh McNab, Arda Mandikian, Sheila Rex, Anna Pollak, Thomas Hemsley & David Lloyd

The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra, Geraint Jones

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

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[On the original release in January 1953] At last we have a really satisfactory recording of Dido.

Gramophone Magazine

Special offer. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Kirsten Flagstad, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Eilidh McNab, Arda Mandikian, Sheila Rex, Anna Pollak, Thomas Hemsley & David Lloyd

The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra, Geraint Jones

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[On the original release in January 1953] At last we have a really satisfactory recording of Dido.

Gramophone Magazine

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Work length58:30
  • Recorded: 15, 27-28 March 1952
  • Recording Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London, UK
Overture
Track length3:07
Act I: Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda, Chorus)
Track length1:09
Act I: Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido)
Track length3:25
Act I: Grief increases by concealing (Belinda, Dido, Chorus)
Track length0:57
Act I: Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido, Belinda)
Track length2:11
Act I: Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, 2nd Woman and Chorus)
Track length1:40
Act I: See, your Royal guest appears (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)
Track length1:17
Act I: Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus)
Track length0:35
Act I: If not for mine, for Empire's sake (Aeneas)
Track length0:24
Act I: Pursue thy conquest, Love (Belinda)
Track length0:49
Act I: To the hills and the vales (Chorus)
Track length1:15
Act I: The Triumphing Dance
Track length1:19
Act II Scene 1: Prelude for the Witches
Track length1:26
Act II Scene 1: Wayward sisters (Sorceress, 1st Witch)
Track length1:35
Act II Scene 1: Harm's our delight (Chorus)
Track length0:18
Act II Scene 1: The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress, Chorus)
Track length0:47
Act II Scene 1: Ruin'd ere the set of sun? (1st and 2nd Witches, Sorceress, Chorus)
Track length1:29
Act II Scene 1: But, ere we this perform (1st and 2nd Witches)
Track length1:14
Act II Scene 1: In our deep vaulted cell (Chorus)
Track length1:16
Act II Scene 1: Echo Dance of Furies
Track length1:01
Act II Scene 2: Ritornelle
Track length0:28
Act II Scene 2: Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda, Chorus)
Track length1:43
Act II Scene 2: Oft she visits this lone mountain (2nd Woman)
Track length2:06
Act II Scene 2: Behold, upon my bended spear (Aeneas, Dido)
Track length0:36
Act II Scene 2: Haste to town (Belinda, Chorus)
Track length0:46
Act II Scene 2: Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove's command (Spirit, Aeneas)
Track length2:43
Act II Scene 2: Then since our Charm's have sped (Chorus)
Track length1:09
Act III Scene 1: Prelude - Come away, fellow sailors (Sailor, Chorus)
Track length1:45
Act III Scene 1: The Sailor's Dance
Track length0:43
Act III Scene 1: See, the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress, 1st and 2nd Witches)
Track length0:56
Act III Scene 1: Our next motion (Sorceress)
Track length0:41
Act III Scene 1: Destruction's our delight (Chorus)
Track length0:35
Act III Scene 1: The Witches' Dance
Track length1:31
Act III Scene 2: Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)
Track length4:41
Act III Scene 2: Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)
Track length1:12
Act III Scene 2: Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me (Dido)
Track length1:07
Act III Scene 2: When I am laid in earth (Dido)
Track length3:58
Act III Scene 2: With drooping wings ye cupids come (Chorus)
Track length4:36
Excerpt,Bach, J S: St Matthew Passion, BWV244
Work length8:44
  • Recorded: 25 June 1950
  • Recording Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London, UK
St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Part II: Aria: Erbarme dich, mein Gott
Track length8:44
Handel: Ombra mai fu (from Serse)
Work length4:34
  • Recorded: 3 July 1948
  • Recording Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London, UK
Excerpt,Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Work length4:57
  • Recorded: 29 May 1948
  • Recording Venue: EMI Abbey Road Studio No. 1, London, UK
Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth
Track length4:57

Awards and reviews

[On the original release in January 1953] At last we have a really satisfactory recording of Dido.
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