Henry Purcell
Dido and Aeneas (feat. sopranos: Kirsten Flagstad and Elisabeth Schwartzkopf, baritone: Thomas Hemsley, The Mermaid Singers and Orchestra, conductor: Geraint Jones)
1953

CD 1
#    Title    Time    Info  
1 Overture 3:07
2 Act I: Shake the cloud from off your brow (Belinda, Chorus) 1:10
3 Act I: Ah! Belinda, I am press'd with torment (Dido) 3:26
4 Act I: Grief increases by concealing (Belinda, Dido, Chorus) 0:57
5 Act I: Whence could so much virtue spring (Dido, Belinda) 2:12
6 Act I: Fear no danger to ensue (Belinda, 2nd Woman and Chorus) 1:40
7 Act I: See, your Royal guest appears (Belinda, Aeneas, Dido) 1:17
8 Act I: Cupid only throws the dart (Chorus) 0:35
9 Act I: If not for mine, for Empire's sake (Aeneas) 0:24
10 Act I: Pursue thy conquest, Love (Belinda) 0:49
11 Act I: To the hills and the vales (Chorus) 1:15
12 Act I: The Triumphing Dance 1:20
13 Act II Scene 1: Prelude for the Witches 1:27
14 Act II Scene 1: Wayward sisters (Sorceress, 1st Witch) 1:35
15 Act II Scene 1: Harm's our delight (Chorus) 0:19
16 Act II Scene 1: The Queen of Carthage, whom we hate (Sorceress, Chorus) 0:48
17 Act II Scene 1: Ruin'd ere the set of sun (1st and 2nd Witches, Sorceress, Chorus) 1:30
18 Act II Scene 1: But, ere we this perform (1st and 2nd Witches) 1:15
19 Act II Scene 1: In our deep vaulted cell (Chorus) 1:17
20 Act II Scene 1: Echo Dance of Furies 1:01
21 Act II Scene 2: Ritornelle 0:29
22 Act II Scene 2: Thanks to these lonesome vales (Belinda, Chorus) 1:44
23 Act II Scene 2: Oft she visits this lone mountain (2nd Woman) 2:06
24 Act II Scene 2: Behold, upon my bended spear (Aeneas, Dido) 0:36
25 Act II Scene 2: Haste to town (Belinda, Chorus) 0:47
26 Act II Scene 2: Stay, Prince! and hear great Jove's command (Spirit, Aeneas) 2:43
27 Act II Scene 2: Then since our Charm's have sped (Chorus) 1:10
28 Act III Scene 1: Prelude - Come away, fellow sailors (Sailor, Chorus) 1:45
29 Act III Scene 1: The Sailor's Dance 0:43
30 Act III Scene 1: See, the flags and streamers curling (Sorceress, 1st and 2nd Witches) 0:56
31 Act III Scene 1: Our next motion (Sorceress) 0:41
32 Act III Scene 1: Destruction's our delight (Chorus) 0:35
33 Act III Scene 1: The Witches' Dance 1:32
34 Act III Scene 2: Your counsel all is urg'd in vain (Dido, Belinda, Aeneas) 4:41
35 Act III Scene 2: Great minds against themselves conspire (Chorus) 1:13
36 Act III Scene 2: Thy hand, Belinda; darkness shades me (Dido) 1:07
37 Act III Scene 2: When I am laid in earth (Dido) 3:59
38 Act III Scene 2: With drooping wings ye cupids come (Chorus) 4:36
39 St. Matthew Passion, BWV 244, Part II: Aria: Erbarme dich, mein Gott 8:44
40 Serse (Xerxes), HWV 40, Act I: Frondi tenere e belle… Ombra mai fu, "Largo" 4:34
41 Dido and Aeneas, Z. 626, Act III: Thy hand, Belinda … When I am laid in earth 4:58
Total time 77:02



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