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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Kirsten Flagstad (Dido), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Belinda), Thomas Hemsley (Aeneas), Arda Mandikian (Sorceress), Sheila Rex (First Witch), Anna Pollak (Second Witch), David Lloyd (Sailor)

The Mermaid Singers & Orchestra, Geraint Jones

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
EMI’s Great Recordings of the Century is exactly what it says: these classic interpretations warrant a place in everybody’s collection.

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Kirsten Flagstad (Dido), Elisabeth Schwarzkopf (Belinda), Thomas Hemsley (Aeneas), Arda Mandikian (Sorceress), Sheila Rex (First Witch), Anna Pollak (Second Witch), David Lloyd (Sailor)

The Mermaid Singers & Orchestra, Geraint Jones

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Purcell: Dido and Aeneas
Work length1:03:43
Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster): Overture (Orchestra)
Track length3:08
Shake the clod from off your brow (Belinda)
Track length1:09
Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido)
Track length3:28
Grief increases by concealing (Belinda)
Track length0:55
Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido)
Track length2:11
Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda)
Track length1:40
See, your Royal Guest appears (Belinda)
Track length1:17
Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus)
Track length0:34
If not for mine, for Empire's sake (Aeneas)
Track length0:25
Pursue thy conquest, Love (Belinda)
Track length0:48
To the hills and the vales (Chorus)
Track length1:15
The Triumphing Dance (Orchestra)
Track length1:20
Prelude for the Witches (Orchestra)
Track length1:30
Wayward sisters, you that fright (Sorceress)
Track length1:35
Harms our delight and mischief all our skill (Chorus)
Track length0:18
The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress)
Track length0:48
Ruin'd ere the set of sun? (Two Witches)
Track length1:29
But, ere we this perform (Two Witches)
Track length1:14
In our deep vaulted cell (Echo Chorus)
Track length1:16
Echo Dance of the Furies (Orchestra)
Track length1:03
Ritornelle (Orchestra)
Track length0:28
Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda)
Track length1:43
Oft she visits this lone mountain (Second Woman)
Track length2:06
Behold, upon my bending spear (Aeneas)
Track length0:36
Haste, haste to town (Belinda)
Track length0:46
Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove's command (Spirit)
Track length2:43
Then since our charms have sped (Chorus)
Track length1:13
Dido and Aeneas Z626 (ed. Geraint Jones) (2008 Digital Remaster), ACT 3, Scene 1, Prelude: Come away, fellow sailors, your anchors be weighing (First Sailor)
Track length1:49
The Sailors' Dance (Orchestra)
Track length0:43
See, see the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress)
Track length0:56
Our next motion must be to storm her lover (Sorceress)
Track length0:41
Destruction's our delight (Chorus)
Track length0:35
The Witches' Dance (Orchestra)
Track length1:31
Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido)
Track length4:41
Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)
Track length1:15
Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me (Dido)
Track length1:05
When I am laid in earth (Dido)
Track length4:00
With drooping wings ye Cupids come (Chorus)
Track length4:37
Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me
Track length0:55
When I am laid in earth
Track length3:57

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EMI’s Great Recordings of the Century is exactly what it says: these classic interpretations warrant a place in everybody’s collection.
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