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Special offer. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Susan Graham (Dido), Ian Bostridge (Aeneas), Camilla Tilling (Belinda), Cécile de Boever (Second Woman), Felicity Palmer (Sorceress), David Daniels (Spirit), Paul Agnew (Sailor) & Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord & direction)

Le Concert d’Astrée & European Voices

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

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Haïm's continuo group plays a vital role in the vibrancy of the performance: six of em...constantly changing colour in an organic tapestry that's continually evolving, improvised in response...

Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 27th January 2004

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Special offer. Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Susan Graham (Dido), Ian Bostridge (Aeneas), Camilla Tilling (Belinda), Cécile de Boever (Second Woman), Felicity Palmer (Sorceress), David Daniels (Spirit), Paul Agnew (Sailor) & Emmanuelle Haïm (harpsichord & direction)

Le Concert d’Astrée & European Voices

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Haïm's continuo group plays a vital role in the vibrancy of the performance: six of em...constantly changing colour in an organic tapestry that's continually evolving, improvised in response...

Andrew McGregor, bbc.co.uk, 27th January 2004

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The brand new series celebrates EMI - The Home of Opera with Haïm's recording of Dido and Aeneas with Susan Graham and Ian Bostridge. Includes complete libretto and synopsis on a bonus CD ROM.

Contents and tracklist

Purcell: Dido and Aeneas: Overture
Work length2:15
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, ACT 1
Work length15:17
  • Emmanuelle Haïm/Susan Graham/Ian Bostridge/Camilla Tilling/Le Concert d`Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm/Camilla Tilling/Le Concert d`Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm/Ian Bostridge/Camilla Tilling/Le Concert d`Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm/Le Concert d`Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm/Le Concert d`Astrée/European Voices, Emmanuelle Haïm/Susan Graham/Le Concert d`Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm/Susan Graham/Camilla Tilling/Le Concert d`Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm/Camilla Tilling/Cécile de Boever/Le Concert d`Astrée/European Voices, Susan Graham (mezzo-soprano), Simon Halsey (director), Camilla Tilling (soprano), Cécile De Boever (soprano), Ian Bostridge (tenor)
  • Le Concert d'Astrée, European Voices
  • Emmanuelle Haïm
  • Recorded: 2003-03-16
  • Recording Venue: 14-16th March, 2003. Arsenal de Metz.
Scene: The Palast: Shake the Clouds from off your Brow (Belinda)
Track length0:36
Scene: The Palast: Banish Sorrow, banish care (Chorus)
Track length0:31
Scene: The Palast: Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido)
Track length4:06
Scene: The Palast: Grief increases by concealing (Belinda-Dido)
Track length0:34
Scene: The Palast: When Monarchs unite how happy their state (Chorus)
Track length0:15
Scene: The Palast: Whence could so much virtue spring? (Dido-Belinda)
Track length1:41
Scene: The Palast: Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda-Second Woman-Chorus)
Track length2:14
Scene: The Palast: See, your Royal Guest appears (Belinda-Aeneas-Dido)
Track length0:47
Scene: The Palast: Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus)
Track length0:35
Scene: The Palast: If not for mine, for Empire's sake (Aeneas-Belinda)
Track length1:29
Scene: The Palast: To the Hills and the Vales (Chorus)
Track length1:03
Scene: The Palast: The Triumphing Dance
Track length1:26
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, ACT 2, Scene 1
Work length7:56
  • Emmanuelle Haïm/Felicity Palmer/Le Concert d`Astrée/European Voices, Emmanuelle Haïm/Le Concert d`Astrée/European Voices, Emmanuelle Haïm/Le Concert d`Astrée, Simon Halsey (director), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
  • Le Concert d'Astrée, European Voices
  • Emmanuelle Haïm
  • Recorded: 2003-03-16
  • Recording Venue: 14-16th March, 2003. Arsenal de Metz.
The Cave: Wayward sisters, you that fright (Sorceress) / Harm's our Delight (Chorus)
Track length2:11
The Cave: The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress) / Ho Ho Ho (Chorus)
Track length0:39
The Cave: Ruin'd ere the set of sun? (Two Witches-Sorceress) / Ho Ho Ho (Chorus)
Track length1:09
The Cave: But ere we this perform (Two Witches)
Track length1:12
The Cave: In our deep vaulted cell (Echo Chorus)
Track length1:28
The Cave: Echo Dance of Furies
Track length1:17
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, ACT 2, Scene 2
Work length9:47
The Grove: Ritornelle
Track length0:43
The Grove: Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda-Chorus)
Track length3:15
The Grove: Oft she visits this lone mountain (Second Woman)
Track length2:18
The Grove: Behold, upon my bending spear (Aeneas-Dido)
Track length0:29
The Grove: Haste, haste to town (Belinda-Chorus)
Track length0:44
The Grove: Stay, Prince, and hear Great Jove's Command (Spirit-Aeneas)
Track length2:18
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, ACT 3, Scene 1
Work length6:03
  • Emmanuelle Haïm/Paul Agnew/Le Concert d`Astrée/European Voices, Emmanuelle Haïm/Le Concert d`Astrée, Emmanuelle Haïm/Felicity Palmer/Le Concert d`Astrée/European Voices, Emmanuelle Haïm/Felicity Palmer/Le Concert d`Astrée, Paul Agnew (tenor), Simon Halsey (director), Felicity Palmer (mezzo-soprano)
  • Le Concert d'Astrée, European Voices
  • Emmanuelle Haïm
  • Recorded: 2003-03-16
  • Recording Venue: 14-16th March, 2003. Arsenal de Metz.
The Ships: Come away fellow Sailors (First Sailor-Chorus)
Track length1:35
The Ships: The Sailors' Dance
Track length0:50
The Ships: See the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress-Two Witches)
Track length1:02
The Ships: Our next Motion (Sorceress)
Track length0:42
The Ships: Destruction's our delight (Chorus)
Track length0:32
The Ships: The Witches' Dance
Track length1:22
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, ACT 3, Scene 2
Work length5:14
Your Counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido-Belinda-Aeneas)
Track length3:27
Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus)
Track length0:50
Thy hand Belinda; Darkness shades me (Dido)
Track length0:57
Purcell: When I am laid in earth (from Dido and Aeneas)
Work length4:00
Purcell: Dido and Aeneas, ACT 3, Scene 2: With drooping wings (Chorus)
Work length2:16
  • Emmanuelle Haïm/Le Concert d`Astrée, Simon Halsey (director)
  • Le Concert d'Astrée, European Voices
  • Emmanuelle Haïm
  • Recorded: 2003-03-16
  • Recording Venue: 14-16th March, 2003. Arsenal de Metz.

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Awards and reviews

27th January 2004

Haïm's continuo group plays a vital role in the vibrancy of the performance: six of em...constantly changing colour in an organic tapestry that's continually evolving, improvised in response to the singers or at least that's how it feels...The casting shows similar imagination. [Graham's is] a bigger voice than you might expect, but so intelligently used that the emotional range increases without our tragic heroine threatening to burst out of her corsets.
Andrew McGregor

Classical Net 2004

It might be an exaggeration to say that this new Dido has one foot in England and the other in France, but it is not far from the truth. The conductor and the instrumentalists establish a French style in the overture. Extremes of tempo, exaggerated dotted rhythms, the instrumental timbres, and an abundance of rolled chords and embellishments evoke spectacles staged at Versailles
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