Purcell: Dido and Aeneas

Geraint Jones, Mermaid Orchestra, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf & Kirsten Flagstad

40 SONGS • 1 HOUR AND 4 MINUTES • FEB 15 2008

1

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626: Overture

03:09

2

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Song. "Shake the Cloud from off Your Brow" - Chorus. "Banish Sorrow, Banish Care" (Belinda, Chorus)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf feat. Mermaid Singers

01:10

3

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Song. "Ah Belinda, I Am Press'd with Torment" (Dido)

Kirsten Flagstad

03:28

4

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Duet. "Grief Increases by Concealing" - Chorus. "When Monarchs Unite, How Happy Their State" (Belinda, Dido, Chorus)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf feat. Kirsten Flagstad & Mermaid Singers

00:55

5

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Duet. "Whence Could so Much Virtue Spring?" (Dido, Belinda)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf feat. Kirsten Flagstad

02:12

6

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Duet and Chorus. "Fear no Danger to Ensue" (Belinda, Chorus)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf feat. Mermaid Singers

01:41

7

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Trio. "See Your Royal Guest Appears" (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf feat. Kirsten Flagstad & Thomas Hemsley

01:17

8

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Chorus. "Cupid Only Throws the Dart" (Chorus)

Geraint Jones feat. Mermaid Singers

00:35

9

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Duet. "If Not for Mine, for Empire's Sake" (Aeneas)

Geraint Jones feat. Thomas Hemsley

00:25

10

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Song. "Pursue Thy Conquest, Love" (Belinda)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

00:48

11

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: Chorus. "To the Hills and the Vales" (Chorus)

Geraint Jones feat. Mermaid Singers

01:15

12

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act I: The Triumphing Dance

01:21

13

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Prelude for the Witches

01:30

14

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Song. "Wayward Sisters, You That Fright" (Sorceress)

Geraint Jones feat. Arda Mandikian

01:35

15

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Chorus. "Harm's Our Delight" (Chorus)

Geraint Jones feat. Mermaid Singers

00:19

16

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Song and Chorus. "The Queen of Carthage" (Sorceress)

Geraint Jones feat. Arda Mandikian & Mermaid Singers

00:48

17

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Trio. "Ruin'd E're the Set of Sun?" - "Ho Ho Ho" (First Witch, Second Witch, Sorceress, Chorus)

Geraint Jones feat. Anna Pollak, Arda Mandikian, Mermaid Singers & Sheila Rex

01:30

18

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Duet. "But Ere We This Perform" (First Witch, Second Witch)

Geraint Jones feat. Anna Pollak & Sheila Rex

01:15

19

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Chorus. "In Our Deep Vaulted Cell" (Chorus)

Geraint Jones feat. Mermaid Singers

01:16

20

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Echo Dance of Furies

01:03

21

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Ritornello

00:29

22

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Song and Chorus. "Thanks to These Lonesome Vales" (Belinda, Chorus)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf feat. Mermaid Singers

01:44

23

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Song. "Oft She Visits This Lone Mountain" (Second Woman)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf

02:07

24

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Duet. "Behold Upon My Bending Spear" (Aeneas, Dido)

Kirsten Flagstad feat. Thomas Hemsley

00:37

25

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Song and Chorus. "Haste, Haste to Town" (Belinda, Chorus)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf feat. Mermaid Singers

00:47

26

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Duet. "Stay Prince" (Spirit, Aeneas)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf feat. Thomas Hemsley

02:43

27

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act II: Chorus. "Then Since Our Chorus Have Sped" (Chorus)

Geraint Jones feat. Mermaid Singers

01:13

28

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Song and Chorus. "Come Away" (Sailor, Chorus)

Geraint Jones feat. David Lloyd & Mermaid Singers

01:49

29

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: The Sailors' Dance

00:43

30

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Duet. "See, See the Flags" (Sorceress, First Witch, Second Witch)

Geraint Jones feat. Anna Pollak, Arda Mandikian & Sheila Rex

00:56

31

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Song. "Our Next Motion" (Sorceress)

Geraint Jones feat. Arda Mandikian

00:41

32

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Chorus. "Destruction's Our Delight" (Chorus)

Geraint Jones feat. Mermaid Singers

00:35

33

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: The Witches' Dance

01:32

34

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Trio. "Your Counsel All Is Urged in Vain" (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas)

Elisabeth Schwarzkopf feat. Kirsten Flagstad & Thomas Hemsley

04:42

35

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Chorus. "Great Minds Against Themselves Conspire" (Chorus)

Geraint Jones feat. Mermaid Singers

01:15

36

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Recitative. "Thy Hand, Belinda" (Dido)

Kirsten Flagstad

01:05

37

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Song. "When I Am Laid in Earth" (Dido)

Kirsten Flagstad

04:00

38

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Chorus. "With Drooping Wings" (Chorus)

Geraint Jones feat. Mermaid Singers

04:37

39

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Recitative. "Thy Hand, Belinda"

Kirsten Flagstad

00:56

40

Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Song. "When I Am Laid in Earth"

Kirsten Flagstad

03:57

℗© A Warner Classics release, 2008 Parlophone Records Limited